[ILUG] Recommended: gnome-terminal

[Justin Mason]

kevin lyda said:

> one point to note is that gnome is moving away from some bits of rasterman
> code that were a bit bloaty.  namely imlib and enlightenment.

thank ghod for that eh ;)

> recently tried pwm (http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/) - it's a
> great concept, but there's a problem with it in that it's statically
> configured.  that was fine when i was actively maintaining my .twmrc,

Yeah, it's just not acceptable anymore is it? ;)  I must admit when I
first decided to try Enlightenment, I was a bit put off by the whole
prospect of learning a new config language -- but then it turned out to
have a GUI configurator.  I was slightly shocked ;)

That's one thing though -- you have to give rasterman thumbs up for
pushing up the bar like that.

And now saw{fish,mill} has an even better one.   It's nice to see these
things coming along in usability terms!

> in the meantime i'll stick with gnome-sawmill.  it's not perfect, i
> still miss my college twm setup, a few bits of the ctwm setup at unify
> and the wmx ability to have titlebars on the side but it's better then
> fvwm, fvwm2, gnome+enlightenment, kde, cde or wm.  that's my opinion
> and my work habits.  the nice part to x is that you can pick.

Actually -- I have seen titlebars on the sides of windows with sawmill in
some of the themes -- maybe it can do it in code, just not in the GUI
configurator?


in passing -- X at 640x480 downsampled to 320x240 for handheld displays:
http://www.petermonta.com/handhelds/

--j.