Re: KDE and GNOME, which one is better?

From: Scott Lurndal (scott_at_slp53.sl.home)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:35:37 GMT

"gino" <mizhael@yahoo.com> writes:
>I feel KDE is more fancier than GNOME, it has even file thumbnail preview in
>home directory or other directory viewing... that's cool.
>
>What do you guys feel? Other than appearance, they are the same in
>functionality, right? Are they the most popular two X-windows system on
>Linux?
>

>
>Any thoughts?

Some of us prefer neither.

I use twm as the window manager, (or tvtwm if I want multiple workspaces)
and xterm as the primary client. Fairly lightweight footprint. All
GUI apps still work fine (pan, mozilla, redhat-*-config, etc), but they
need to be fired up from a command line (which is completely acceptible
to me).

One can use the X utility "xcmdmenu" to create on-screen buttons bound
to various command-lines (i.e. to invoke pan, mozilla, or whatever by
just pushing a button).

It is certainly not as pretty as GNOME or KDE, but much more functional
and the entire screen is available (no desktop metaphor getting in the
way).

here is my .xsession file, to use it, you must first move the .xinitrc
file out of the way.

#
# .xsession file.
#
LNAME=${LOGNAME:-xyZ}
XERROR_FILE=/tmp/.xsession-errors.${LNAME}
LOG_FILE=/tmp/xsess.out.$$

echo "starting xsession" >> ${LOG_FILE}

exec > ${XERROR_FILE} 2>&1

if [ "X$(uname -s)" = "XSunOS" ];
then
    PATH=$PATH:/usr/X/bin
fi
# Remap the control and shift-lock keys, but only for the native
# display
#
if [ "$DISPLAY" = ":0" -o \
     "$DISPLAY" = "unix:0" ] ;
then
        echo "Setting keymap" >> ${LOG_FILE}
        xmodmap .modmap
fi

echo "Setting resources" >> ${LOG_FILE}
xrdb -load .Xresources.color
xsetroot -solid black
xbiff -geometry +0+0&
xclock -digital -geometry +223+-2&
xset +dpms

_DISPLAY=${DISPLAY}
if [ "$_DISPLAY" = ":0" ];
then
    _DISPLAY="$(uname -n):0"
fi

# Start xterms on remote hosts

for i in remote_host1 remote_host2 remote_host3
do
  xhost + ${i}
  rsh ${i} "(ksh .Xremstart ${_DISPLAY} <&- 1>&- 2>&-)" <&- &
done

twm&
sleep 1

xterm +sb -geometry 80x65-0-3 -bw 7 -ls -name "$(uname -n)_1"&
xterm +sb -geometry 80x65+97+6 -bw 7 -ls -name "$(uname -n)_2"&
xterm +sb -geometry 80x65+354-5 -bw 7 -ls -name $(uname -n)_3"&

exec /usr/local/bin/xcmdmenu -name 'xyzmenu' -geometry +2-2 $HOME/.mycmds

#(if you don't have xcmdmenu, you can download it, or use:
#
#exec xmessage -buttons "Quit "Press Quit to Exit this X11 Session"
# or
#exec twm (and remove the earlier twm&)