Re: Shortcuts

[Robert Rati <ratirh@cs.purdue.edu>]

Actuall,y you're not making any mistakes about window-managers at all.
Window-manager don't have desktops for the most part.  At least none of
the ones you are using.  Most of the window-managers use configuration
files to setup buttons or shortcuts to programs through sime kind of
menuing system, wharf bar, or both.  KDE and Gnome (maybe others) offer
the ability to create shortcuts on the desktop like windows does.  If you
really want this feature, I'd suggest trying one of those
windowm-managers.  They're both a bit buggy, but KDE is farther along
than Gnome from what I've heard as far as stability is concerned.

								Rob

On Thu, 20 May 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:

> Sofar I'm pretty happy with Linux, except for X Window. I haven't found one
> window manager which makes it easy for a user to put a shortcut on the
> desktop or in the application menu. I talk mainly about shortcuts for
> Netscape and WP.
> 
> Sofar I've used fvwm95, icewm, qvwm and windowmaker, with the latter having
> the nicest look, alas being also the least straight forward.
> 
> If I use my standard rule for Win95 software (if I can't understand the
> basics of a program within 15 minutes I'll throw it off my computer) then I
> would have thrown off X Window already a long time ago. I suspect I am
> making a fundamental mistake about the usage of X and window managers, so
> could some of you shed a light on this for me?
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
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