Re: Software Recommendations

From: Luke Matthews (luke.matthews_at_nospam.comcast.net)
Date: 08/09/04

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    Robert E A Harvey wrote:
    > Chris Babstock <chris2@cs.mun.ca> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.08.08.10.37.48.214275@cs.mun.ca>...
    >
    >>I'm currently trying to setup sawfish as my wm, and I would prefer not to
    >>use gnome as a backend (or is it frontend?) to it; I want to save system
    >>resources to make my system run faster.
    >>
    >>Anyhow, my question is, what can I use for some kind of 'taskbar', so I
    >>can see all my running windows, and a system tray (if any) for some
    >>minimized stuff. A pager wouldn't be a bad idea as well.
    >>
    >>Thanks for any advice.
    >
    >
    > I would suggest fvwm2 instead, http://www.fvwm.org/, it has pagers and
    > an icon tray and is very efficient.
    >
    > it also has a curious ability to manipulate the windowing system from
    > script files - FvwmCommand

    xfce is decent too:
    http://www.xfce.org

    Here are some addons for it:
    http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=910

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