Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

[ichi@ihug.co.nz]

Heimo Claasen wrote:
> 
> I'm struggling since ages to make a specific SCSI device run 
>
> a new Debian-3.0 install first _did_ have it run 

Hurray!

> For again some unrelated reason, there had to be a re-install 
> of this very Debian; I used not the "frame buffer" but the 
> "compact" kernel install that time, 

What?  After all the trouble you had getting your installation
to work, you decide to change the kernel?

> had later enormous difficulties to get X working at all, and 
> it never accepted  the full range of the high-resoulution screen, 

Looks like your experiment with the "compact" kernel was a mistake.

> I haven't _got_ fifteen month of idle time to go through 
> twentyseven docs and sources 

Funny that.  Weren't you complaining last year about a lack of 
documention in Linux (or was that some other newbie-from-hell).
Now you say there is too much documentation. 

> it would be nice to have some clearly worded information of 
> what the differences _are_ between those window managers.

I have read many articles comparing window managers.  They appear 
pretty often.  There's also a web site devoted to different wms:  
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http://www.plig.org/xwinman/
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> I would never ever get the _functional_ information I need, 
> namely to find the comparably "simplest" one 

I found the above site in less than 60 seconds using google.
It also gave me this:
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http://www.windowmaker.org/features-performance.html
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Google is your friend.  Before you complain about something 
not being available, you should do a google search.
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http://www.google.com/palm
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Cheers,
Steven

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