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Re: [LUG] Fluxbox

 

Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:03:48 +0100
> Neil Winchurst wrote:
> 
>> I thought I would have a look at fluxbox. I run Kubuntu Gutsy. It 
>> installed fine. No menu awith right-click. Saw lots of suggestions
>> viaGoogle, most of which seemed unnecessarily complicated. Anyway,
>> finally ran sudo update-menus and then right-click worked as expected.
>>
>> I was surprised that neither Firefox nor Thunderbird appear in the 
>> menus, at least I have not found them yet. I have added them as
>> keyboard short cuts.
>>
>> I have seen suggestions that I should add rox as a file manager.
>> Another idea was thunar. I am wondering now, why would I need to add
>> a file manager?
>>
>> Any one on the list that has used fluxbox? Any comments, suggestions, 
>> thoughts please?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Neil Winchurst
> 
> Since you're looking at skinny WMs, have you tried Sawfish?  Many
> people will try and tell you that Sawfish is *supposed* to be used as a
> WM under Gnome (ie instead of Metacity, or whatever), but it does
> pretty bloomin' well on its own.  Give it a shot. :)
> 
> Grant.
> 
I have had a first look at Sawfish in Google and it appears to need 
Gnome. Since I use Kubuntu with KDE and hate Gnome with a passion I 
wonder if Sawfish will work OK with Kubuntu?

Neil

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