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Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
> The thing I've always found frustrating with modern window (desktop)
> environments is that they take up screen real-estate and applications are
> then designed (by default) to open full-screen.
I just auto-hide the GNOME bars... no real estate vanishes - can't afford
it all my monitors are still 1024 x 768
> Since all my work involves typing into Xterms, I like to have a few open
> next to each other, and maybe a small window of some otehr application,
> etc. so I can quickly switch between then. I've no need (nor use) for a
> desktop with files, nor a "file manger"
I rarely use either, sometimes when playing with images or video the GNOME
file manager is a handy preview. I need to persuade it that "delete" is
"delete" when used on removal USB storage, not rename it all
.Trash{mumble}, I dare say there is a place to do this if only I'd looked.
At work I have KDE (all autohiding), and I kind of like the KDE Konsole as
a terminal (better than Xterm) but that is probably just being use to it.
But KDE really is hideous in Squeeze, it'll try and index everything in
MySQL or some such by default, which I'm sure is helpful to someone.
> So do I waste a day getting to grips with xfce4/gnome, or just soldier
> on...
I'd stick GNOME in and see if it helps sort things for productivity, then
go back to fvwm if/when you have time to sort it out. GNOME really
shouldn't take much learning, it is fairly painless and bland. You might
even find you can persuade it to fix things, and tell you what it did. I
find that more and more.....
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