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<FONT COLOR="navy">Followup on Window managers</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 7 Sep 2000 08:56:30 -0600 (MDT)
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Gordon Haverland
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(<A HREF="mailto:ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca"
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Hi!
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Nice article on window managers, although it would have been
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nice to see a few more tried out.
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There are many people out there who have their favorite
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window manager out there, and won't try others. Sort of like the
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which editor is better (vi versus emacs) battle. But what
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might actually be interesting, is for the X% (90+ ?) of us
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who don't have any strong feelings about window managers (or
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editors for that matter), is if some kind of "popularity
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contest" could be run. We login, and instead of calling
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twm, fvwm, ... in some RC file, we made a call to wm, which
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picked one of the N window managers on our system at random.
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When we went to logout, or to force a change of window manager;
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we were asked our feelings on how the session went, and then
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this report (along with a list of what window managers are on
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our system) went someplace for compilation. Maybe even a list
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of what programs were launched during the session (and from the
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command line or via the window manager/icon/however you want to
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describe it). People who are interested in wm could get feedback
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wm was. I'm sure some interesting statistics might show up.
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Carpathians who do GIS work.
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Gord
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<p><em>Well, there is always Debian's statistics package so you
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can let them know what you liked - perhaps someone will
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do something similar for X. -- Heather</em></p>
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:35:26 -0400
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<BR>From: Doug James <<A HREF="mailto:dcjames@home.com"
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>dcjames@home.com</A>>
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Is there a place on the internet where I can pick up some documentation
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on the latest version of xdm (The on released with XFree86 4.0.1)?
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I've looked everywhere I can think of, hit every search engine I know
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of, and even gotten flamed as a lamer on linux IRC channels trying to
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find this information.
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<p><em>And speaking of X... Readers! This is your chance to</em>
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Make Linux A Little More Fun
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<em>-- namely, to adopt a man page today, starting with most of
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the XFree86 Project... or, some articles on XFree86 4.0 would
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be cheerfully accepted here, too. -- Heather</em></p>
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><strong>Thank you, [X in "Toaster" Mode]</strong></a>
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><strong>NT GINA for 95/98</strong></a>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Thank you, [X in "Toaster" Mode]</FONT></H3>
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Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:59:09 +0100
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<BR>From: "Padraig Tobin" <<A HREF="mailto:Padraig_Tobin@eur."
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>Padraig_Tobin@eur.</A>3com.com>
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Saying 'thank you' seems passe these days but I feel I have to do it anyway..
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I'd been trying to do this for about a week until I eventually found
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[at a gazette mirror] <TT>../issue52/tag/14.html</TT>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">NT GINA for 95/98</FONT></H3>
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:00:34 -0600
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<BR>From: <em>Anonymous</em>
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FYI, re your 'and NSGINA ' article, there is a 95/98/NT/2000 GINA solution
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now provided by Digital Privacy, Inc.
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<em><dt>This note was made anonymous by request. It isn't strictly about
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Linux, but, we mentioned the GINA so... you can read more:
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<dd><tt><a href="http://www.digital-privacy.com"
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Tue, 05 Sep 2000 10:55:40 +0200
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<BR>From: Henk Langeveld <<A HREF="mailto:Henk.Langeveld@holland.sun.com">Henk.Langeveld@holland.sun.com</A>>
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<BR>Subject: gazette navigation
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<P> Please consider making these two buttons at least as large as the 'FAQ'
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<BR>From: Linux Gazette <<A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</A>>
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<BR>Subject: Monthly FAQ roundup
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<LI> Una traducción de <EM>Linux Gazette</EM>
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Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:31:34 -0500
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<BR>From: eL JoRgItO <jorge@hal9000.eui.upm.es> <<A HREF="mailto:jorge@hal9000.eui.upm.es">jorge@hal9000.eui.upm.es</A>>
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<BR>Subject: Escogiendo un Administrador de Ventanas
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<P> hola, una critica, :(
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<BR>constructiva espero ;)
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<P> Es sobre el articulo
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<A HREF="../issue57/arndt.html">"Escogiendo un Administrador de Ventanas..."</A>,
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no conozco muy bien vuestra publicacion y tal, pero me parece un
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poco flojo, el autor solo conoce generalidades de cada gestor de ventanas
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y enumera algunos reconociendo que ni siquiera los ha probado...
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Me parece muy mal, pues creo que lo minimo antes de escribir sobre algo
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es probar todo lo que por lo menos conozcas y nunca hablar de oidas.
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Yo sin ser nadie del otro mundo he probado esos gestores y ochocientos mil
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mas y solo por curiosidad, sin el proposito de escribir un articulo sobre ello.
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<P> na mas, el resto de articulos que he visto tenian mejor pinta, y por eso
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os comento este. gracias.
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<P> saludos de un cachupin desde la peninsula :)
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<H4>Felipe Barousse translates:</H4>
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<P> Hello, here is a criticism, :(
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a constructive one, I hope ,)
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<P> It is related to the article
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<A HREF="../issue57/arndt.html">"Choosing your Window Manager...."</A> I don't
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really know very well your magazine but, the author of this article seems a bit
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lousy to me. He only knows generalities of each window manager and names a few
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and even acknowledges that he hasn't tried them...
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<P> It looks so bad to me since I believe that the least thing someone has to
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do before writing about something is try out everything that you know and avoid
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talking by what you listened around.
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<P> Me, being nobody special have tried those window managers and hundred other
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ones just out of curiosity and without the specific purpose of writing an
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article about it.
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<P> That's it. The rest of the articles I have seen look much better and that's
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why I comment on this specific one.
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<P> Greetings from a "cachupin" from the peninsula :)
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<P> [Translator's note: cachupin: refers to the people native of Spain.
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Peninsula refers to the Iberic peninsula; that is, Spain]
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shorter. If you prefer
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<H4>Or, in Spanish:</H4>
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<P> Aunque ese artículo sea quizás un poco débil de
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detalles, contiene algo de información de interés a unos
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usuarios. Hay cada nivel de lectores, tanto usuarios nuevos como
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<P> Si Vd quiere escribir algo por <EM>Linux Gazette</EM> en inglés,
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envíelo a
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a <A HREF="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</A> como Consejo de 2 Centavos si es
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