[aclug-L] Re: Which X is your favorite

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Nathan & Jenny wrote:

> I was one of the new guys at the ACLUG meeting the other night.  
> I'm just getting started, toying around with RH 6.0.

Great! Toying around is the best part :)


> Red Hat seems to prefer Gnome.  What type of Windows is easiest to
> use? Which one seems to be everyone's favorite?

IMHO, Gnome is a pig & a hog.
<begin freakiness>
I actually like 'lwm' (Lightweight Window Manager).
I used to have some screenshots, but try his main site:
http://users.ch.genedata.com/~enh/lwm/lwm_faq.html

Give it a read, if nothing else :)
<end freakiness>


> I've never played with the RPMs before, but I wouldn't know how to
> uninstall Gnome and replace it with anything else.  Are there any
> other types of X on the RH 6.0 cd?

rpm -e gnome

there's a whole slew of other gnome-* rpms that get installed, too.
On a friend's computer, I just sat there doing 'rpm -e gnome-blah' on
each one (some will go away, others won't saying "will break
dependency"), but eventually you weed your way down through the
dependencies and get them all removed.

As others have mentioned, XFree86 is the X server.  KDE and Gnome are
different environments that run on top of X.

/proc is cool :)

-jeff
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