RE: What windows manager to use ?

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

Here's some helpful data to help you decide.

The two most popular for use with gnome are enlightment
and sawfish as you mentioned. There also the only two I have
used enough to comment on.

Enlightment was designed for X not gnome and alot of features
are duplicated in both (backgrond pic for example) this is 
can lead to confusion as your never sure which setting will
work and which will be overridden. Also Enlightenment is slower

Sawfish works best with gnome. no feature overlap and it is
configured throught the gnome control center.

However there are many differences to the look and feel that
may make you prefer one to the other. I suggest you use 
sawfish first and if your happy stop. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Soulier [mailto:msoulier@nortelnetworks.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:51 AM
> To: gnome-list
> Subject: Re: What windows manager to use ?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 11:41:00AM -0700, Ezequiel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am currently using Red Hat but I plan to change to Debian 
> in the near
> > future. The problem is, I don't know much about diferences 
> with window
> > managers for gnome (which one is better, which one uses 
> less resources,
> > which one is faster, etc ...). I ear a lot about 
> enlightenment and sawfish,
> > I've eared about iceWm as well, though it does'nt seem to 
> be used out there.
> > Could anyone give me some advise on which WM to go for ?
> > Thanks
> 
> 	Nope. Look and feel for your desktop is, I believe, a 
> very personal thing.
> If you have adequate disk space, I suggest installing every 
> window manager and
> desktop environent in existance and trying them all. Then pick one and
> customize it. Don't let people make up your mind for you. Try 
> them and make up
> your own. 
> 
> 	Mike
> 
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