On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:42:47PM -0700, Heather wrote: > I forgot to mention that from a laptop user's point of view, the windowmaker > dock has a huge number of "system watcher" style applets made for it. Dialers, > battery monitors, cppu load checks are all the rage. There are some others > too, eg CD player gadgets. > > Many of such "dock apps" can be run without windowmaker happily, and have a > small size - in bits as well as screen estate. So if you have a Desktop > need, but not enough memory in an already full laptop for the big Desktops, > you can certainly make do with those. interestingly enough, on the desktop i switch between icewm and windowmaker every few months (hey, linux is all about choice right). however, for the past 4 months i'm overseas and relying on my lappie for all my work. i find that i like windowmaker much more than icewm on the laptop. i think it has something to do with the relative size of the dock apps on the laptop versus the desktop, but this could just be a personal quirk of mine. -- Sergio J. Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html GPG fingerprint = 16DB 4934 E0F1 B386 AE81 D379 914C 33E5 F690 95DF BOF excuse no. 289: Interface between the keyboard and the chair.
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