Re: Musings on debian-user list
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 2009-07-29 00:20, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without
>>>> the
>>>> desktop environment.
>>>
>>> But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end,
>>> and the intarweb has become too graphics-oriented to make lynx/elinks
>>> widely useful.
>>
>> Why are you equating a desktop environment with a GUI? I don't
>> use a DE -- no gnome, KDE, gdm, kdm, wdm, xfce, or what have you. I use
>> something far more flexible and and configurable than those
>> underpowered environments;and I certainly am not doing without a
>> graphical env.
>
> You're right. GNOME & KDE have been dominant so long that I forgot about
> older WMs.
>
> Is there a way in fvwm to have a panel/dock with applets (weather, volume,
> date/time and "window list" are really useful to me) and have look like
> Windows 2000 (aka Crux theme and borders, and GNOME-like icons)?
>
> GNOME really is too bulky and pretty dumbed-down, but they've done IMNSHO a
> good job of making an easily-configured panel and a "smooth" system that
> lets me customize it enough so that what I need is there, in colors and icon
> styles that are "obvious but not jarring". If that makes any sense.
>
> And, of course, GTK-based apps integrate very well.
>
In an attempt to continue with the direction that this thread is now
on and bring it back to where it started, I politely suggest that you
RTFM and offer you this link http://xwinman.org/
;-)
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