Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:28:32 -0500 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> Cc: Laura Gioia <laura@satori.inet.it>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome or KDE desktop? Message-ID: <20010402122830.A34092@northernbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <SAK.2001.03.30.ggbjonac@support10>; from fbsdq@yahoo.com on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:35:15AM -0700 References: <SAK.2001.03.30.ggbjonac@support10>
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Peter (fbsdq@yahoo.com) wrote: > . . .|I use WindowMaker at work, but the lack of a pager makes me more > . . . .|inclined to do things the "Windows" way and Alt-Tab through all the open > . . . .|windows until I find what I'm looking for. > > Why not just middle [or right ? i forget] click on the destop > and get a list of all open windows and choose from there....Plus windowmaker > has multiple desktops, I dont' know if there is a limit, but I've gone past 5 It's not quite the same as having a visual representation of all your desktops in a graphical pager. In my Afterstep setup, I've got SIXTEEN desktops, and managing them is a trivial. I tend not to utilize Windowmaker's multiple desktops to its fullest because I can't "see" them until I actually visit them. Caveat: I have not tried using the Gnome pager, as suggested earlier in this thread. Although my preference for desktop minimalism has generally kept me away from Gnome/KDE in the first place. Don't get me wrong: there are things I really like about Windowmaker, and part of the reason I'm using it on a machine is to see if all the Windowmaker fanatics are correct in their fanaticism. IMO, the best thing about Windowmaker is its nice GUI configuration program. If you want to customize Afterstep you've got to do it by hand. It's no big deal, but the configuring the new Afterstep is considerably more complex, with multiple config files. On the other hand, it is impossible to duplicate my Afterstep focus preferences in Windowmaker. :( -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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