Technonoid Posted November 28, 2003 Report Share Posted November 28, 2003 I have played with window maker a few times. I thought it was neat, but just not my style. I was here , notice the number of projects! Wow! Do that many people really use it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted December 2, 2003 Report Share Posted December 2, 2003 I have played with window maker a few times. I thought it was neat, but just not my style. I was here ,notice the number of projects! Wow! Do that many people really use it ? judging from replies... apparently not :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 2, 2003 Report Share Posted December 2, 2003 not my style either. Tried it just for it's flexability, but nah. It's one of those, just about anybody can do something original with it or devel a new applet. Many hop on the bandwagon to then get tired of the constant config necessary to mantain and keep fresh.....because face it....it's ugly. A lot of diehard old linux hands use it and will never stop not to mention they have old machines. Same with afterstep. Also, look at the list......just guessing here but the 2 oldest have the most entries. WM and Sawfish. I think that's the main reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vdubjunkie Posted December 2, 2003 Report Share Posted December 2, 2003 I use it most of the time. Sometimes I switch to KDE. It is actually quite stable with a much smaller footprint. If you look at posts with "show off your desktop" you'll notice it quite a bit. It is especially good for boxes without power to spare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJ Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 I used it for a while when I first started using linux 2 years ago. I liked it. Themes were nice, and dockaps fit in very nicely. Don't use it anymore though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bratag Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 I use it exclusively - Its a very small memory FP, very fast - dockapps are easily installed (I have even written a few) and readily available. In comparisson KDE and Gnome might be prettier but they chew up a chunk of memory and are slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 I played with it. I was suitably impressed by speed but I didn't have time to work out the config since i was working to a deadline. Basically I have two internet access machines. Ideally I'd like a fully featured broswer that runs without X. (one machine only has 64MB RAM and if you brose other posts you can see why!) So far I can't find a non-X graphical browser. Im willing to PAY too. All I want is something like Opera on symbian In the meantime i just want an X session with a fullscren Opera or Firebird. Firebird has proven 'unstable' due to users messing with the profile or the profile being locked after they close it. Then you get the whole 'new profile thing' I guess I could clean it up and add a delete to the lockfile when a user logs in. I just want a window manager, no frills, no menu that start opera and closes when/if opera closes. IDEAS ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vdubjunkie Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 Closest thing I'm personally aware of is WindowMaker. It is quite nice. You'd never have to use the menu it comes with and you could give it a gray background for fast vnc connections. The bottom dockap in the upper right hand corner is a terminal, and you can just pull that up and call your progz from it. That is what I do for my server. In fact it's menu got messed up somehow but I don't much care... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 5, 2003 Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 At the moment Im running linux seperately on both PC's. The server is a P100 so not really capable of running multiple X sessions (in fact it doesn't have X installed - just routing, and http and other server services (mail etc)) I was VERY quickly changing them over.... tired waimia (quite nice too) and a few others BUT I'm already convinced I need to learn windowmaker Only prob is the menu's etc. are all HACKED by Mandrake to be part of the mandrake menu's. I don't want ANY of this, My users are nationalities and the language changes if you log in as Francaise or English or Italiano etc. and Im prefectly happy to do the config from the CLI. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technonoid Posted December 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2003 That brings up another good question. Which uses the least amount of memory? I would guess blackbox, with no background. Or does windowmaker use less? But then, I don't know why I asked this other than the knowing.. hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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