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Re: Looking for nice, small display manager



Herewidth testifying: My favorite WM (so far) is 'icewm-gnome'.

It's main assets to me:

	- it is small, clean and fast

	- it's panel shows up to 3 little graphical squares showing system activities:
		a) system load
		b) LAN load
		c) online load

	- Ctrl-ESC (or mouse-Right) shows main menu

	- Ctrl-Alt-<Left|Right> moves easily through my screens
	- Ctrl-Alt-<1 .. 0> switches to the Nth screen

	- Alt-Tab moves through my windows w/in one screen

	- a tiny panel icon shows a letter symbol turning green on new mail

On my AMD-100 MHz PC, 128 MB RAM, I extended this WM from 4 to 12
screens in order to separate different activities more easily.


My main drawback: So far, I did not look for a good config program, I
did it manually, mainly by editing the text files in

	/etc/X11/icewm/

Icons of newly installed programs (e.g. "opera.xpm") should be copied to

	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icewm/icons/


The digital panel clock looks a bit ugly to me but does its job.


If anybody knows a usefull configuration program, this nice WM would
sure get some more customers.


moin, Wilko

-- 
Wilko Fokken                           Education is a man's going
Landschaftspolder 67                   from cocksure ignorance
D-26831 Dollart                        to thoughtful uncertainty.
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Tel. 04953-382



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