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Re: light weight desktop for browsing



On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 10:09 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > I am using fvwm on my 2GHz Athlon and P4 machines with 1GB RAM each. Do you
> > have to switch to a memory wasting wm once you have a faster machine? fvwm
> > rocks, unfortunately the current version in testing does not like my config
> > anymore that I started writing 10 years ago. So maybe I have to switch to
> 
> Yeah, I started using fvwm about 10 years ago as well ;-)
> 
> > gnome, which already can do a few things, that fvwm can do, or start reading
> > about what changed in the new versions. Until I decide, I am keeping an old
> > fvwm version around.
> 
> I used fvwm for many years as well. A few years ago, I wanted to start using
> GNOME, but I couldn't stand any GNOME-compatible window manager for longer than
> a few minutes (except for icewm, which could keep me unfrustrated for about an
> hour or so ;-) Then sawmill^H^H^H^Hfish arrived, I switched over, and I'm still
> a happy user.
> 
> So even if you don't want to use GNOME, if you're used to fvwm, and want to
> start using a different window manager, you may like sawfish.

Does it work with GNOME 2.x?  I thought it was only for 1.x.

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