Re: Anyone using GNUstep?

[Ed Sutherland <digital@twcny.rr.com>]

Running GNUstep applications under fluxbox works fine. After all the 
clutter of the major environments and wrestling with the quirks of so 
many other windowmanagers, fluxbox seems a joy of simplicity and 
compactness. About the only extra detail I need in a windowmanager - a 
simple digital clock - too often consumes precious desktop space (I have 
a 15-inch monitor, not a 21-inch workstation display.) Having the clock 
on the task bar is a sign fluxbox is on the right track.

With Window-Maker, which is the preferred desktop for GNUstep, the 
layout seemed uncomfortable and crowded. Fluxbox includes my GNUstep 
apps right along with Gnome and KDE. Plus, for whatever reason, fluxbox 
doesn't give me that 'crowded' feeling.

With Afterstep, the desktop background and menus were gorgeous, but upon 
opening two GNUstep windows (GNUmail's main and mailbox windows, for 
instance), the display would flicker.

With Gnome, the GNUstep AddressManager opens, but within minutes would 
'bomb' (with a lit bomb and a message the app required rebooting.)

So, all in all, fluxbox seems the best windowmanager I've tried yet.

Ed


Tony Godshall wrote:

> According to Ed Sutherland,
>  
>
> > I like the GNUstep approach to applications, but am not crazy about the 
> > windowmanagers -- windowmaker and nextstep. Are there any better 
> > windowmangers for GNUstep? I think AddressManager is far better (at 
> > least for me) than that offered by Gnome or KDE.
> >    
>
> I just installed addressmanager and ran it fine under fluxbox.
>
> I suspect addressmanager and other gnustep apps will work just 
> fine under any WM that doesn't geomtries too strongly (e.g. ion2).
>