Re: Window managers

["Ralph M. Deal" <deal@xxxxxxxx>]

Earlier today,, Thu, 3 Feb 2000, I wrote:

> Following the advice of KLUG gurus, I've tried to install xfce to no avail
> so far.  Let me bore you with my attempts:
> 1. I found a version of xfce on Bruce Smith's own BSware6.1 as an rpm and
> installed it.  Meanwhile I had been looking at the xfce site and found
> that there was a version released in Dec., after I had gotten my BSware6.1
> cdrom, so I downloaded the rpm and updated the xfce. I set the
> environmental variables LANG to "en" and XFCE_DATA to /usr/share.
> I ran xfce_setup.  I ran xfce which would do nothing without X11 being up
> and when I ran xfce in the default window manager, now GNOME rather than
> kde which was my former default, I get some xfce icons on the desktop but
> they were not functional.
> 
> What did I do wrong?  I want to get a slim window manager both for my old
> 166MHz,16M-ram beast and to use in schools on even slower machines with
> less ram.  
> 
> Looking forward to your wisdom,   Ralph    deal@kzoo.edu,
> 			education director, KLUG

but NOW, things are much better!  Despite the absence of any clear
directions, I have managed to create .xinitrc with the single command
xfce
AND to learn how to create items for the pull-down menus, with icons yet.

Does anyone know of a good tutorial on xfce?

So far, it is much faster than kde.  KLUG has given great advice, once
again! (I refer to the original suggestion of xfce as a window manager)

	Don't slide off the roads,   Ralph deal@kzoo.edu