[H-GEN] Desktop wars ..... (no not really)

[Mark Suter]

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Nick,

> I'm planning to moving my home desktop machine finally away from M$
> Windows, as WINE is stable enough to support the remaining windows
> apps I still want to run. I have been a long time slackware distro
> person, so will probably continue to use that as my base (plus my one
> of my other machines is a slack boxen).
>
> However, when it comes to desktop there is the rub. KDE or Gnome or
> ...... ?

As in the case with many things in the Unix world, some understanding
goes a long way.  I will simply refer you to the X Window System
Architecture Overview HOWTO:

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XWindow-Overview-HOWTO/

Now that we've got that under our belt, take a look at the *huge* range
of options in front of you:

    http://www.plig.org/xwinman/

For what it's worth, I use http://flwm.sourceforge.net/ and am very
happy with the 52K total size of my "desktop".

Yours sincerely,

- -- Mark John Suter  | I know that you  believe  you understand
suter at humbug.org.au | what you think I said, but I am not sure
gpg key id 2C71D63D | you realise that what you  heard  is not
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