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Frith
10-20-2001, 02:42 PM
anyone know of a wm that is small (like blackbox) and yet is relatively feature rich and easy to use?
Frith
10-20-2001, 05:53 PM
yes...it must be user-friendly. I just tried out ion and, well, let's just say that it was rather frustrating to open it up and have no user menus of any sort or any templates to make them with.

any more minimal than bb and I may not be too interested in it.
LiNuts
10-20-2001, 07:28 PM
IceWM - It is IMHO as good if not better than Blackbox :D
Cheers
LiNuts
Frith
10-20-2001, 08:10 PM
Originally posted by LiNuts:
<STRONG>IceWM - It is IMHO as good if not better than Blackbox :D
Cheers
LiNuts</STRONG>

cool! :)

I just downloaded, compiled, and installed it. It kicks arse! :D

only one thing, though...how do I configure it? it didn't make a .icewm directory in ~, nor did it make any rc files (as far as I can tell)... and www.icewm.org (http://www.icewm.org) is down at the moment.
Frith
10-20-2001, 08:59 PM
nevermind...I think I figured it out. :D
LiNuts
10-21-2001, 08:28 AM
Originally posted by frithiof:
<STRONG>cool! :)

I just downloaded, compiled, and installed it. It kicks arse! :D

only one thing, though...how do I configure it? it didn't make a .icewm directory in ~, nor did it make any rc files (as far as I can tell)... and www.icewm.org (http://www.icewm.org) is down at the moment.</STRONG>

Theres a nice little program called "iceme" that you can download, It lets you configure IceWM with a GUI.
Cheers
LiNuts
Gnu/Vince
10-21-2001, 08:50 AM
You could try Sawfish: light like IceWM and configurable like Enlightenment.
Frith
10-21-2001, 02:37 PM
Originally posted by Gnu/Vince:
<STRONG>You could try Sawfish: light like IceWM and configurable like Enlightenment.</STRONG>

can I use it without GNOME? I'd really prefer to avoid using something that takes a long time to load up.

and icewm is very, very nice, btw. I just went through the preferences file and customized things to my liking...grabbed a theme (Pure95; a win95 lookalike)...and now, well, it looks like what I wish windows was more like. heh. the menu handling, the desktop management, and just about everything on here is absolutely incredible (and fast! it's just about as fast as anything on blackbox...).

that BSD 'start' button is 1337. :D

I changed the theme to the xp one...there was just something about that win9x theme that seemed to beg me to change it. it was probably the fact that the toolbar at the bottom looked like a pile of fecal matter.

[ 21 October 2001: Message edited by: frithiof ]
Ludootje
10-25-2001, 03:29 PM
just set sawfish as your kde windowmanager (/usr/lib/startkde; last line) or whatever de you're using.. though i have no idea for other de's how to config it