>I am beginning to suffer from acronym overload. I use fvwm2.
Yea!
>I downloaded scwm (touted as the successor to fvwm) but could not get it
>to do button bars or a pager. Then I inquired about Enlightenment but
>was told it was resource hungry compared to fvwm. Now I see conversation
>about Gnome and how to do gnome-like things with fvwm. What is Gnome and
>what are itst strenths & weaknesses?
I'm not sure about SCVWM except that it exists,
Enlightenment is a Fvwm Hack ( a very nice one ) that
allow custom window frames shaped icons etc etc etc, resource hungry
but very pretty, als some say that it can be hard to configure.
www.enlightenment.org
Gnome is not a window manager, it is a Desktop Suite, consisting of a
"taskbar", file manager
admin applications and productivity applications, ( they have ported fun
ones too :), it
provides a consistant look and feel between apps, session management,
applets. It has
no specific window manager base, Miquel uses olvwm, raster use
Enlightenment, I use fvwm with it.
www.gnome.org
>More generally is there a path forward from fvwm2 that incorporates the
>critical functions (button bars, pagers, menus) but does not chew up
>more resources than fvwm2? Or should I ignore the static and just stick
>with fvwm2?
Fvwm2 provides all of these, FvwmPager, FvwmButtons, and the menus are
configurable from the .fvwm2rc file..
>(I'm a little nervous. Previously I bet on Honeywell, Univac, OS/2 and
>the Tandy 6000 :-( )
well, at least fvwm/gnome/enlightenment are free :)
>--
>John R. Culleton, Jr. john_at_ccpl.carr.org
>Sykesville, MD 21784 U. S. A.
>(410) 795-1159
Ron Pugh
reset_at_mbay.net
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Received on Wed Jun 03 1998 - 13:28:13 BST