[TriLUG] Re: Sawfish, Enlightenment.. any RH 7.1 WM

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 13:12:56 PST
"Karl J. Runge" said:

>Why not do it the old fashioned way in your ~/.xinitrc shell script;
>just write a little loop or two to launch the rxvts.  This separation
>may help you from getting bitten the next time you change WM or GUI.
>
>If you don't know what I am talking about for this "little loop" in
>.xinitrc, just ask me.

I've never done it any other way.  I started out using twm, then went 
to tvwm, then ctwm, and finally fvwm/fvwm2.  For window/app launching 
I wrote a small perl script (one of my very first:) which launches 
applications based on command line options.  I set up my .[ctf]vwmrc
file to open certain window types in specific desktop areas and I'm 
done.  My menu items even launch apps using my script.  The script 
has persisted through 4 or 5 window managers, yet my look and feel 
has remained almost identical across them all.

I tried a "desktop manager" once, it was called CDE, for Crappy 
Desktop Environment, I'm sure.  CDE couldn't remember window 
placement very well either.  I fought with it for 2 days and gave up.
If I can't figure it out in a couple hours, it's not worth the effort.

KDE and Gnome may someday eventually be worth using, but I've found 
they provide way too much eye candy and not enough usability to make 
it worthwile.  Until then, I'm sticking with fvwm!