on Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Bob Alexander (bob@ngi.it) wrote: > Mi??elis Rozenbergs wrote: > >fvwm? > >http://www.lynucs.org/?fvwm > > > > Thank you Mikelis. > > My question is not really about window managers. I know and have used > many in the past (amongst which windowmaker, enlightmenet, fvwm, xfce > etc etc). > > My question is really about the feasibility of using one of these "pure > windowmanagers" along with some selected KDE and GNOME applications > amongst which konqueror, k3b, gaim, grip etc I run WindowMaker. You can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.... Well-designed apps will run with no problems. In my experience, this is all of KDE, and most of GNOME. Some GNOME apps (see Bug#230756) don't test their environment correctly and do things which Don't Play Well with alternate environments. Nautilus in particular. Incidentally, the Debian Developer here is presuming a WONTFIX from upstream. I'm inclined to reopen. To the extent there are incompatibilities, these are largely annoyances of figuring out how to turn off / disable the annoying behavior. My PoV is that the apps should figure this out on their own, and it's the arrogance of GNOME devs in this regard which *really* makes the project grate on me. Not that anyone's noticed..... That said: If you're happy and comfortable with WindowMaker, keep with it. I run all the apps you mention with no issues. > My doubt is/was that the prerequisites of such programs bring in too > much of the GNOME/KDE frameworks and that they will try to get control > of many aspects of my environment again :( Largely not. If they do, file a bug. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? I've just sucked one year of your life away. - Princess Bride
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