"Jake Holmen" <jakeholmen_at_hotmail.com> writes:
> Sure. I have tried Gnome and KDE - but they both are memory hungry and I
> have a slow machine.
>
> Is there a way to include menu items and have a menu on the desktop at all
> times?
Right now fvwm menus can't be pinned to the desktop but anything a menu
can do FvwmButtons can do. See below.
> J
>
> >From: Dan Lowe <dan_at_scsiboy.com>
> >Reply-To: dan_at_scsiboy.com
> >To: Jake Holmen <jakeholmen_at_hotmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: FVWM: New member on list.
> >Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:58:17 -0500
> >
> >Previously, Jake Holmen said:
> > > Hi my name is Jake.
> > >
> > > I have been using fvwm2 for not long.
> > > But I wish to ask a couple of questions.
> > >
> > > 1. what's a graphical setup program that I can use to set up fvwm2 so
> > > that
> > > I can have "shortcut icons" (buttons) on the desktop, just like in
> > > winhorrible95.
Right now fvwm doesn't come with a graphical setup program.
If you visit our web page and look under links the Dotfile generator
or FvwmConf may help you out in that department.
To put buttons on your desktop to launch things you might consider
using FvwmButtons.
> >FVWM probably has no facility for this, but you might want to look at the
> >GNOME desktop environment (www.gnome.org). It ships with just about every
> >distribution of Linux around, so there's a good chance it's already
> >installed on your system.
> >
> >You can use FVWM as the window manager for GNOME if you want, but you're
> >better off using something like Enlightenment because it understands GNOME
> >management hints. See www.enlightenment.org also.
Hmm...recruiting for E?
> > -dan
> >
> >--
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Received on Mon Mar 20 2000 - 20:50:23 GMT