Re: Window manager recommendations?

From: Giorgos Keramidas (keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr)
Date: 05/25/05 

Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:00:53 +0300

On 2005-05-24 03:22, banditstan2000@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> I'm using a Sun Ray/Solaris 10 x86 setup, and want to try a new window
> manager which works on this kind of setup, dtlogin integration would
> be nice. I've tried Enlightenment, but the blastwave.org distribution
> has a few problems with sound and some other bugs. IceWM is quite
> nice, but the screenlock does not agree with the Sun Ray. The XFCE on
> blastwave does not start up properly, and WindowMaker's preferences
> will not load so I cannot configure it. In my old age I'm after a
> window manager 'that just works', anyone got any recommendations?

Windowmaker works fine, except for this minor annoyance of having the
wrong path for WPrefs in the menus or the launch button. I've seen this
on various sorts of systems (Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris) and always
thought: "Bah! They got the path wrong again..."

The "fix" for the bug in the menus and/or startup files installed with
the Windowmaker package is to use find(1) to locate the WPrefs
executable and then manually edit the Windowmaker menu, the command of
the lanch button and any other location that needs to fire up WPrefs.

I can't speak about the rest of those window managers or desktops,
because on Solaris I use CDE.

- Giorgos