[ale] What were they thinking?

[Michael Perigard]

I adore blackbox. I use it at home on linux and at work on AIX (instead of
the bloated dtwm that they push out.) It's small, it's fast, it has a good
user base, and (if you really wanted to) you can run desktops like Gnome
and KDE (stick around and wait for them to fix it?) on top of it;
remember, it's a window manager, not a desktop.

Support for dockapps, key shortcuts (with bbkeys), and best of all, its
small! For some of you in recent posts with those speedy machines loaded
wih ram, that may not be a problem, but it's always nice to conserve
resources.

Since it doesn't take too much time to compile and install, it's at least
worth a look. And you can always visit bb.themes.org to take a peek at
what other people have done with it. Youll be suprised.

-Michael Perigard
UNIX CADD/CAM Support
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.
Savannah, GA


On Tue, 8 May 2001, JackM wrote:

> Might take a look at:
> 
> 
> http://blackbox.alug.org/
> http://www.xfce.org/
> 
> 
> > Does anybody have any suggestions for a good Window
> > Manager or Desktop besides KDE or Gnome?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jeff Layton
> > 


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