[NTLUG:Discuss] Suse 8.0 wm2 failure (and solution); wmx window manager

[terry]

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:

> From time to time I try to evaluate my work habits. Lately, I think 
> I'm being hindered by KDE (slow and bloated). KDE is nice in general 
> (and my wife likes it when I have her try Linux), but I think it's 
> slowing *me* down. Time for a change...again... :-) 


Linux users are never satisfied. :)

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> A mimimalistic window manager that I've demoed and liked before is 
> "wm2". I thought I'd try it out for a longer time. Having a Suse 8.0 
> install with a wm2 RPM on the DVD, I thought this would be easy. HA! 
> After I installed the RPM, I started it up, then tried to open a new 
> xterm (from the root menu), X Window would just lock up (everytime) 
> forcing a control-alt-backspace. For anyone else in this boat, the 
> answer turned out to be going to get the source 
> (http://www.plig.org/xwinman/wm2.html) and compiling & installing. 
> Everything works just fine now. I don't know why, but my guess is that 
> I've downloaded some patch from the Suse site (my guess is libstdc++) 
> and so the RPM version failed.
>
> BTW, at that same link, it talks about a window manager called "wmx", 
> which is like wm2, but has a few extra features. I've started using it 
> and have found it to be very nice. If you have a small memory machine 
> (I don't but I do run large apps) or you want a more spartan desktop, 
> this is a window manager you should check out.
>
> Thought I'd share... Now back to trying to make a USB network device 
> work...
>
> Kevin

On the subject of window managers, I'm using KDE on this box and Gnome 
on the other one and am wondering if anyone can tell which is faster or 
less of a resource hog?

I'm really liking Gnome, the latest, (stock Mandrake 9.0 install), and 
the wife likes it too. In fact, it appears to have made a Linux convert 
out of her. (I've been working on her for over a year now and had all 
but given up.)

Anyway, I just want someone's assessment on which is leaner between the 
two, KDE or Gnome.

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