Guest kuchwas Posted January 7, 2004 Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 (edited) Well, I used "urpmi ion" :D Google for "ion window manager" gave me http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ Edited January 7, 2004 by kuchwas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 I tried Ion. Didn't like it, but I didn't give it a fair chance either. I prefer my eye-candy Gnome. On one of my older systems (I just got two of them, IIRC they are both P233s) I use Blackbox through VNC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 I tried Ion. Didn't like it, but I didn't give it a fair chance either. Same here :o What is that...that....that, thing? A wm? There wasn't....well, anything :lol: /uninstalled B) BTW, I can't change my vote from gnome but I'm all kde now. Lost all my good stuff and don't feel like spending the time to get it back. I know....bkup!....the tarball was there but I forgot to transfer it through the network /formated over it. So, it's kde4me :D ...for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 Nautilis is so slow. I mainly use Fluxbox with ROX Desktop, sometimes KDE just for a change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 I use KDE on my desktop because I like the feel and look of it very much. Gnome on my very old laptop because I wanted to test it to (can't get it to work on my desktop). Been thinking about trying Fluxbox on my very old laptop, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Fluxbox baby. It's the only way to fly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 Wow, scary... I was listening to a song, and that head-banging smiley struck me as odd, since it was banging in time with the beat of the song... Eerie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 Hi there, first, it's "Window Maker" and not "WindoMaker". ;) Second, you're comparing apples to oranges, here. Window Maker is nothing but a window manager, as are Fluxbox, Ion, and XFCE4 (among others mentioned in this thread). GNOME and KDE are both desktop environments and application frameworks. Hence, if you include Window Maker in that poll, you'd have to write "sawfish" instead of "GNOME" and "kwin" instead of "KDE" as those are the default window managers with those environments. Anyway. I usually use GNUstep as my main application framework / desktop environment, with Window Maker as window manager. As GNUstep is still rather, shall we say experimental? as a desktop environment, there aren't too many applications around, hence I need to use loads of application wrappers. But at least the look and feel is consistent. ;) 93, -Sascha.rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 I'm always confused and don't know what i'm using. Some kinda gui thing with windows and stuff all over the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 KDE since day one..........still stuck in KDE land. tried Gnome a few times, but i didn't like it at all. toy with Flux now & then, but it's still a bit beyond my comprehension, usabilty wise. same with WindowMaker. so, i'm content & quite happy with my KDE. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 Hi there, first, it's "Window Maker" and not "WindoMaker". ;) Second, you're comparing apples to oranges, here. Window Maker is nothing but a window manager, as are Fluxbox, Ion, and XFCE4 (among others mentioned in this thread). GNOME and KDE are both desktop environments and application frameworks. Hence, if you include Window Maker in that poll, you'd have to write "sawfish" instead of "GNOME" and "kwin" instead of "KDE" as those are the default window managers with those environments. Anyway. I usually use GNUstep as my main application framework / desktop environment, with Window Maker as window manager. As GNUstep is still rather, shall we say experimental? as a desktop environment, there aren't too many applications around, hence I need to use loads of application wrappers. But at least the look and feel is consistent. ;) 93, -Sascha.rb First, desktop includes all. It doesn't ask what de you use. Second, no one should be comparing with each other.....it's just a poll where ppl state what they use. Third, sawfish and kwin are useless on their own so they couldn't be listed on thier own. We download WindowMaker... so one word is fine.....it's just mispelled in the poll. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nggalai Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 Good morning everybody, We downloadWindowMaker. so one word is fine.....it's just mispelled in the poll. Oop, sorry about, should have been a bit clearer with that one. I was only referring to the typo, not the space (even though the WM guys needed to change the name to Window Maker with a space included due to copyright restrictions). As for the rest of your post--you're right, of course. I was just goofing off, hence the smileys. ;) Still, I am always surprised how many users believe they can't use GNOME or KDE applications whithout actually using the GNOME / KDE desktop environments ... hence I felt like I needed to add that bit to the current thread. 93, -Sascha.rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crock Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Tried both KDE and Gnome. Gnome first, then KDE. KDE gets the nod since its better equipped for handling themes and theme changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Tried both KDE and Gnome. Gnome first, then KDE. KDE gets the nod since its better equipped for handling themes and theme changes. I could careless if you use kde, but what do you mean by "handling themes and theme changes"?? I always found it pretty simple to change a theme in Gnome, are you speaking on a deeper level? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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