Window managers alternatives (was Re: [svlug] StarOFfice to be GPL'd...)

Aaron Lehmann aaronl at vitelus.com
Sat Jul 22 20:14:01 PDT 2000


On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> > WindowMaker 0.62.  Highly influenced by NeXT.  Clean, stable, simple,
> > elegant, easily configurable, lots of keyboard accelerators (hotkeys),
> > stays out of the way.  Also compatible with both Gnome and KDE, though
> > I don't typically exploit this.
> 
> Not *really* compatible with Gnome. On my workstation (RH 6.2), I'd get
> constant complaints from Gnome that I wasn't running a Gnome-compliant
> window manager. I've never had that problem running KDE pieces with WM.

Not its fault. Gnome sucks so much that it has problems like this all the
time. Gnome compatability is undesirable as Gnome is a disgusting piece of
crap (in my VERY humble opinion).





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