[NBLUG/talk] Window Manager/ Desktop Environment...

Kyle Rankin kyle at nblug.org
Tue Dec 18 11:19:52 PST 2007


On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:14:14AM -0800, Robert P. Thille wrote:
> 
> This is more of an X11 question than Linux (since I'm unable to get 
> Linux to run stable on my VIA EPIA EN15000G, I'm running NetBSD instead).
> 
> I've got X11 working (so far with just the VESA driver, but I'm working 
> on building the OpenChrome ones) and now I'm starting to look around for 
> a lightweight window manager/desktop environment.  I'm more of a 
> NeXTStep/Mac guy than Windows, so the environment certainly doesn't have 
>   to be especially windows-like.  Light-weight is good.  I don't 
> anticipate doing a whole lot of GUI stuff on this system, as it's my 
> replacement server for my Cobalt RaQ2+ server that doesn't have anything 
> GUI on it at all...  I'm just thinking it might be nice to have a 
> working X11 setup so if I need Ethereal or some other tool that's GUI 
> only I'd be ready.
> 
> Any opinions?
> 
> Robert
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If you like NeXTStep then try windowmaker. It's lightweight and very
similar.


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