Charles Hines wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Chaim" == Chaim Rieger <crieger_at_infohighway.com> writes:
>
> Chaim> unfortunatly my company does not have unix clients, and i have to work
> Chaim> on a windows desktop, usin a ssh client,
>
> So sorry to hear that...I'd probably just make my desktop a dual boot Linux
> box and do as much as I could outside of Windoze (using Wine and/or Windoze
> under Plex86 when needed) but I understand if that might not be feasible...
>
> Chaim> does fvem work with windows, or if nt does anything else do
>
> Although the Cygwin/XFree86 solution suggested here previously would work, and
> have some other beneficial side effects like having access to all of the nice
> powerful UNIX command line tools, but there is another choice: LiteStep. It's
> a port of AfterStep (which was derived from fvwm) directly to Windoze as a
> replacement for the normal desktop there.
>
> I've only played with it a little, since I try and avoid Windoze as much as
> possible, but some other people who I know that use it reported that their
> system seemed to crash much less often while they were using it. Thought that
> was pretty funny... :)
>
> The website I have bookmarked for it is here:
>
> http://www.litestep.net/
>
> but it appears to be down right now (also try .com instead of .net as I think
> that is another site for it). Try a Google search. Actually, I just did one
> and it looks like this is the new home:
>
> http://ls2k.org/
>
> also came up with this site as well:
>
> http://www.desktopian.org/
>
> that you might find interesting (looks like they have several other similar
> projects pointed to from there).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Chuck
I've been using a multi-desktop add-on* on my NT for some time anyway,
so when I use an XServer for NT, I just give it it's own desktop. Works
quite well.
(* I've tried quite a few freeware and shareware solutions, and decided
I liked PerfectScreens best. YMMV.)
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Received on Mon Oct 22 2001 - 09:07:35 BST