New Window Manager

[David McMullen_1]

I would love to replace CDE with just about anything. I tried installing a depot of WindowMaker, but I get an error message saying that I need to run wmaker.inst. The depot doesn't come with it. Any thoughts or suggestions?

TIA

davidmac

[Alex Glennie]

Yes ... Try getting hold ofthe KDE depot, I left CDE in place but used its startup scripts + an .xsession file to start KDE in preference to CDE.

Readme file was good .... and worked both on 10.20 & 11.xx ?

[Steve Steel]

If you want a new window manager KDE is fine.

If you want to have a choice look at
http://www.fvwm.org/ fvwm is fun
http://www.plig.org/xwinman/
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This lets you really choose

[David McMullen_2]

I would like to assign points to you guys, but I cannot login with my old ID any longer. Thanks for your help. I still am trying to find the SWDepot for KDE. Any pointers would be appreciated.

davidmac

[Alex Glennie]

I don't have a URL to hand but the method I employed to find them was the following :

ran a search on Yahoo for KDE .... went to one of the numerous ftp mirrors for the s/w depot and picked and downloaded the README and KDE depots .... NB I think the latest version of KDE has just moved onto 2.xx