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Cossins
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I am not sure you can change the window manager in KDE.
Of course, you can always killall kwin and try starting your native window manager.
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Stormy Eyes
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| Cossins wrote: | I am not sure you can change the window manager in KDE.
Of course, you can always killall kwin and try starting your native window manager.
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You can also modify your /usr/bin/startkde script, but that's a system-wide change which might be a Bad Idea if done on a box that's not yours. |
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zenlunatic
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To avoid discussions based on "feelings" and zealotry, I would like to see the creation of a guide that lists all the popular window managers, as well as information about toolkits such as Qt and GTK, and simply explain what they offer, how they differ, and other such quality information. I think this is the best way a curious individual can discover which Environment and window manager suits him best.
People like Gnome. People like KDE. People like Fluxbox. People like foobar... How exactly do these differ quantitatively? How can a non-programmer, such as a manager, make an educated decision about implementation without some such comparison? I personally believe "best" correlates exactly with "situation", and is not universally true. What we need is a way that potential users can fully and constructively exort the freedoms that the OS grants them.
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Stormy Eyes
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| Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| zenlunatic wrote: | | To avoid discussions based on "feelings" and zealotry, I would like to see the creation of a guide that lists all the popular window managers, as well as information about toolkits such as Qt and GTK, and simply explain what they offer, how they differ, and other such quality information. |
Hmmm... have you been to the Window Managers for X page?
Personally, I think the best way to pick out a WM for personal use is to install everything in /usr/portage/x11-wm and experiment. |
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bleakcabal
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| I use KDE, but I also like WindowMaker which is great and I load it up sometimes. I have to say that XFCE4 is nice too I have tried it a bit. |
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Stormy Eyes
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| bleakcabal wrote: | | I use KDE, but I also like WindowMaker which is great and I load it up sometimes. I have to say that XFCE4 is nice too I have tried it a bit. |
I used to love the WidowMaker.  |
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ptitman
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fluxbox rocks !!! if the only thing u r looking for is a fast working WM , it is the choice. menu is easy to configure.
i used to be a KDE fan , would actually say that it helped me a lot in my first steps into linux. |
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