Re: OT: X window-managers

[ktb <x.y.f@home.com>]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:47:28AM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> Hi all. I'm curious..  
> I installed X for the first(?) time last weekend
> and I installed FVWM. I had heard about Gnome,
> but decided not to use it because I wanted
> something fast and small. Now I'm wondering, what
> are the advantages to using something like Gnome,
> (which runs on top of a window manager anyways)
> when I can get the same functionality from a
> smaller, yet configurable, window manager?
> comments? opinions?
> 

	You can run gnome programs from fvwm so I don't really see any
	advantage to running all the gnome stuff which is a memory hog.
	It is pretty much personal preference.  What you want to look
	at.  
	kent

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