Window manager (was RH6.0 Gnewbie usability questions)

[bratsche dfw net]

Regarding Enlightenment chrome vs. switching to another window manager,
you might try keeping with Enlightenment but just turning off some
features. If you use large non-tiled images in the background, that will
eat up memory and slow things down. Go into the Enlightenment configurator
program and edit the options and you're likely to see some amount of speed
increase.

I personally don't like WindowMaker at all, but it's a popular window
manager. You may like it. I know that the Fvwm guys are working on getting
a new release of Fvwm2 out sometime, and it will include GNOME support.
This is a cool thing, because I like Fvwm2 quite a bit.

Cody

> 4.  Enlightenment is cool, but I doubt I'll need all that much chrome, and if
> the window manager is slowing my system down I'd prefer a small, fast, manager
> than one with all the bells and whistles  RH6 appears to have installed
> WindowMaker, and I'd like to try it instead.  This is almost certainly an X
> newbie question, but  --- Is there an easy way to change active window
> managers under GNOME?  In RH5.2 it was just a menu selection, and in KDE it was
> a Henry Ford's choice: only kwm.  (No big deal; I'll figure it out eventually,
> but there's probably an easy way and a hard way.)