Re: Request for window manager recommendations
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:49:45 +0100
Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
...
> Last week Xfce4 crashed on
> > me five times. Other than that, yes, it's a good compromise*. I've
> > gone back to the tried and true IceWM.
>
> How did you manage that? The panel plugins aren't sandboxed which can
> cause problems if the plugins have bugs. Which ones did you have
> installed?
>
> I must admit I didn't see your bug report in the BTS despite getting
> all of them for all the packages. Perhaps you can point me at it?
>
> Simon.
>
Crashed is probably the wrong term. It locked up to the point that I
couldn't <ctrl><alt><F*> to a console in order to shut it down although
<ctrl><alt><backspace> still worked to kill it. I installed every
plugin I could find, isn't that the Proper Thing To DO?
As for a bug report, I just went right back to what works for me and
didn't feel right intruding into the operations of a package I don't
typically use and of which I might not know the inside workings very
well. Besides, I fear appearing too very foolish if there is an
easy and obvious fix that I'm just too dense to find. Perhaps I should
have devoted more time to it and filed that report, but, oh well. Now
had it been Ice...
Cybe R. Wizard
--
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we
can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov
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