On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:18:40PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Rob Walsh wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:28:15PM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mario Lombardo wrote: > > > > > > > When I look at some people's machines (Intel based), I see they have > > > > this window manager with a Gnome big toe icon in the start-like menu > > > > thing at the lower-left of the screen. I guess the whole strip at > > > > the bottom is some kind of a file manager? How do I get that for my > > > > Sparc? It looks cool. All I'm getting now is the typical icewm > > > > start menu, etc. > > > > > > It sounds like you want the gnome control-center. Look for a package of > > > that name. It's more like the windows-taskbar than a file-manager though. > > > > I think it's actually gnome-panel. > > > > > It might take some tweaking to get to work since you're using IceWM with > > > it's own variant of a control-center (you may want to take a look at > > > another wm btw, IceWM seems to be abandoned by the upstream-developers and > > > gnome2 support is not amongst its features IIRC) > > > > I like sawfish (window manager) a lot, especially if you're going to > > use the Gnome stuff -- simple, expects the Gnome tools (like the panel > > applets) to take care of all the "conveniences". > > I assume you mean sawmill. Err, no. I meant sawfish. I don't know whether you are deliberately being a troll, or if you're just an ass, but for the benefit of those who might not know, from the Sawfish FAQ: ---------------- 1. Why is it now called _Sawfish_? Because the old name (`Sawmill') was already being used by another company, who were in the process of registering it as a trademark. The rename should be mostly painless, all old binaries still work for the time being, but will be phased out over time. Where before you would execute a program called `sawmill*', replace it by `sawfish*'. E.g. `sawmill' becomes `sawfish', and `sawmill-client' becomes `sawfish-client'. ---------------- > Like I said, > > # apt-get install sawmill-gnome > # apt-get install task-gnome-apps Or as someone else suggested, use dselect so you can see explicitly what the dependencies, suggestions, and recommendations are. Gnome is fairly heavyweight, both in terms of memory and CPU usage. Sawfish isn't, but may be less that friendly enough without the Gnome packages. When I can run Gnome, I use Sawfish. When I can't, I use WindowMaker. Later, Rob.
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