[Scottish] FlameWar: Window managers

Colin McKinnon scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Jan 31 09:17:02 2003


Aidan Skinner wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 14:47, Gavin McCord wrote:
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>>As previously mentioned, Xfce. I use it along with mostly GNOME apps and
>>ROX (see my previous post) as file manager. I gave up on Nautilus a long
>>time ago.
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Yup, even when I had my Ximian / Sawfish / gnome desktop I had got rid 
of nautilus - used gmc instead.

>Nautilus 2 is very much lighter and faster than 1 was, if you haen't
>tried it out recently it's worth a second look.
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Sorry - still not convinced. After I got the network all configured 
gnome was a little less flaky (why?) and I can now get the gnome-panel 
started under mwm - which is usable. I'm going to try and get something 
nicer running over the weekend.

Colin