Re: Window managers

[Preben Randhol <randhol pvv org>]

Richard Hult <rhult@hem2.passagen.se> writes:

| I don't think that's the reason. Just think of a newbie, he installs the
| rpms, and no gnome-compliant wm. Some things don't work properly, like the
| pager. Since he has no clue about windowmanagers and X etc, he won't
| understand a thing. If the installation forces him to install E, he can
| start gnome and get to know the environment. When he understands more, he
| can change the wm to something else, icewm or windowmaker etc.

Then it is much better to use a wizard like the one that was suggested
earlier. (If you don't remember, there was a suggestion that one made
a wizard that warned newbies not to run gnome as root, but create an
users account)

When one start say the panel one could get a warning that this is not
an Gnome complient WM and suggest that one installes one of those who
are. Of course one should be able to turn of this warning. 

 
| Have you tried icewm? It's a nice, fast, gnome-compliant wm.

and ugly. No I'm content with Window Maker :-)

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