In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:41:36 +0000
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> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Thursday 22 March 2007 14:59 \__
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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>> wrote
>> on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:11:10 +0000
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>>> __/ [ 486box ] on Tuesday 20 March 2007 21:07 \__
>>>
>>>>>twm.
>>>>
>>>> I actually like TWM. It's light, useful, extensively configurable,
>>>> etc. Not much to look at, but not horrible. I use it on all machines
>>>> with less than 200mhz processors (which is a lot of machines here)
>>>> that I need to have X on.
>>>
>>> twm is set as my login manager at home.
>>>
>>
>> Huh? Twm is a *window* manager -- very light footprint, very basic.
>>
>> For login management, one uses xdm, kdm, or gdm. (There may be
>> others; I'll admit to some curiosity. Customization of xdm
>> is possible.)
>>
>> For session management, xsm used to be top dog, though nowadays
>> it appears to be integrated into the rest of the GUI environment.
>>
>> (Personally, I prefer metacity/Gnome.)
>
> Oops. I realised this shortly after I had posted. twm used to be my windows
> manager briefly, and xdm was the login manager. But KDE (running on just 256
> MB of RAM I might add) is my desktop environment, with KWin as the windows
> manager. In KDE 3.4 there's an odd bug which kills KWin if you press alt+F4
> in full screen mode. I don't know if it's distro-specific though. It may
> have been resolved since then... been well over a year.
>
I'm not sure what "full screen mode" is here, but Konqueror
does have a Settings -> Full Screen Mode in its menus.
Activating that puts Konqueror in full screen mode;
clicking on the K icon afterwards actually creates another
Konqueror instance, but is slightly confusing visually as
Konqueror merely appears to reset itself and put up a menu.
Alt-F4 does nothing interesting; I'd say that bug's been
partially fixed in KDE 3.5. For its part if one fires up
Konqueror in Gnome's window manager, goes into full screen
mode, then hits alt-F4, Konqueror closes. I'm not seeing
indications of anything crashing.
I set up gdm and KDE 3.5 as a test here. I'd use Xnest
but Gnome intercepts the Alt-F4 and closes the Xnest
window, so I now have a dual X server setup. I can extend
it to more than 2, memory and/or card memory permitting.
If I really wanted to get fancy I'd set up various depths.
Windows "one at a time" mentality is so constricting to me now. :-)
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