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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,22:16 QUOTE
Where can I learn about what fluxbox and jwm offer?

The wiki does not seem to have the info.

I use gnome on my servers and main notebooks.
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Posted: Dec. 20 2007,22:59 QUOTE
Fluxbox has their site at SourceForge.

Joe's Window Manager seems to be here.

Maybe some of the other guys will chime in and offer up what they've seen.

I'm not sure what version numbers and what modifications have been made for the DSL project.

I'd like to know the big differences too... if you decide to catalog what you learn as a side-by-side comparison, would you mind sharing it?  Maybe you could put up a Wiki page and then the comparison could be gathered up there?

I'd like to join the trend and migrate to JWM as well, but there are a few things I'd like to change (in my own system) before I can get comfortable with it.  Your lead might be what I need to get inspired.

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John
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Posted: Dec. 21 2007,15:04 QUOTE
Please understand that the documentation on the Fluxbox site is for version 1.  The Fluxbox version in DSL is much older than that (0.1.14), so making a comparison based on the websites is not going to be accurate. The Fluxbox version in DSL has nowhere near the features of version 1.0, but is much lighter and faster.

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Posted: Dec. 21 2007,15:58 QUOTE
What about the version of jwm?
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Posted: Dec. 21 2007,16:20 QUOTE
Quote (john.martzouco @ Dec. 20 2007,17:59)
I'd like to know the big differences too... if you decide to catalog what you learn as a side-by-side comparison, would you mind sharing it?

I'd like to join the trend and migrate to JWM as well, but there are a few things I'd like to change (in my own system) before I can get comfortable with it.  Your lead might be what I need to get inspired.

Well, I think I have found the one item that locks me into jwm:

It has gnome functionality according to joe's web pages.

With vncviewer, I can access a server with gnome gui isntalled (can be running with init 3), and work with the server's gnome desktop, not just plan old raw X.

So now my 'goal' is to see what else I can do in jwm.  I suppose one of the next things will be to install openoffice.  But I do have to step 'lightly', as this system only has 64Mb memory!
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