Re: WindowsXX emulating window manager

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>At Tuesday's KLUG meeting, I asked about how best to configure a LINUX
>machine be familiar for a W95/98 user and received two window manager
>recommendations: qvwm and icewm.
>I got both and have tried them.  Qvwm must be configurable in some way but
>the documentation was sketchy at best, as those who installed in on the
>Boogie stations must know but I gave up after a bit of poking around.

QVWM configuration is in it's config file,  they're is no way to change it
except by changing it's file.  Usually this is in something like
/usr/local/share/qvwm/system.qvwmrc

>Icewm is neat.  While it took me a while to adjust from xfce, my previous
>favorite wm, the documentation in icewm is reasonable and it does at this
>point have for me a Windows 95 feel.  Each user can modify it to suite
>their tastes.  I have entered both new wms in my .xwmmrc so I have an
>even larger spread of window manager choices when bringin up X11.

Ice is nicer if you have quasi-competent users,  qvwm if your users are
hopelessly inept (or inept to some unknown level).

>Thanks for the suggestions, especially to Adam for the ice recommendation.

Your welcome.

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