window managers

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 11:55:00AM +0900, toyfactory wrote:
> Hi, I'm thinking about trying to find an alternative to Gnome.  A few
> years ago I had a vaguely functional Red Hat 7 setup using Enlightenment
> window manager.  I was able to run a whole load of Gnome apps, so
> presumably I had all the Gnome libraries installed.  I guess I would be
> possible to do the same with Ubuntu.  I might try KDE as another
> heavyweight alternative to Gnome.  But what about all the other,
> lighter, managers like Enlightenment, Xfce, Fluxbox, Icewm, Afterstep
> etc.  Is anyone here using something other than Gnome or KDE?  How easy
> was it to get configured (I'm happy with text files, provided they're
> easy to find and well documented) and was there any difficulty getting
> already installed Gnome or KDE apps working with it?

I'm using icewm.  I had it running with Libranet and when I installed 
Ubuntu, kept my existing /home directory (on a separate partition) and 
Ubuntu picked up icewm, presumably from the entry I had in ~/.xsession:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/icewmbg&
exec icewm
xset dpms 600 1800 0 

If I log in as another user (without that .xsession), I get Gnome.

hth,
Bob