Re: worthless window manager

[Vic <ntr southwind net>]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kevin Colby wrote:

Sorry dude, not meaning to put it down---
I shouldda said something like--

How do I run the setup tool for fvwm?

I mean how is this wm setup?

With a script that I missed?

Or another thingy?

I do like the fact that it runs fast.

But how would one cause this wm to act correctly?
 ie displaying the correct icons or displaying the 
correct pulldown menus?

Unless I miss my hypothesis,
is this the wm thats like a "bare bones" for a very wide
and diverse set of those who are putting different things in it
so different that they left out the things that would normally
come in such an app?

I could not seem to locate any instruction set 
coming with it so either its hidden somewhere that
I forgot to do a search on or it somehow did not
get installed in the docs.

But dang it sure runs fast, I wish I could get this speed
*with* the kind of usability I am looking for.

How come fvwm does not know what was installed?
Sorry for the stupid question, but i am one curious cat
as well as a self made student of what I am curious of.


 Hey, now...
> 
> > I installed AOL inst mess and Licq and it does nothing,
> > no icons to click on nor does it show up in the pulldown
> > menus to show I even installed the stupid thing.
> 
> Well, FVWM is not going to hold your hand.
> It doesn't play like that.  It doesn't know
> what you installed, or what icons you like.
> If you really want to use it, you'll need to set it up.
> 
> > So I dumped it and went back to KDE.
> 
> If you expect those kinds of things in your WM,
> FVWM is probably not for you.  That said, FVWM
> will run circles around KDE.  It all depends on
> what you expect from it.  There are trade-offs.
> 
> 	- Kevin Colby
> 	  kevinc grainsystems com
> 
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Vic

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