[ale] Lightweight Window Manager Issues

[James Sumners]

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/desklaunch.html

On Saturday 04 October 2003 11:00 pm, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I know a good many of you go outside the KDE/Gnome realm in the name of
> speed and/or small footprint.
>
> I've been doing a kind of penance by working on setting up a Pentium/60
> (yup - the dead-end Socket 4 and the floating-point bug) machine for a
> church.  My only objective here is to create a GUI machine that plays
> games along the lines of xmahjongg or GNUchess.
>
> Fluxbox, ICEwm, FWVM2, and Windowmaker have been tried, using either
> Gentoo or SuSE 7.0 or 7.1 (I can't recall which).  Only the SuSE has
> produced X that isn't just horribly broken-seeming (odd crosshatched
> patterns in what should be blank areas in terminal windows, for example)
> but I'm running into this thing where I want to be able to make KDE-,
> Win-, or Gnome-like desktop icons that launch apps, but I can't seem to
> be able to do it.   I took a stab at reverse-engineering how Windowmaker
> built its little sliding panels, but even if figured out how to do it, I
> don't think anyone with fair Windows experience would be able to figure
> out how to launch the games using those.
>
> So, is there a WM I'm missing, or am I just not seeing how you make
> app-launching desktop icons in these WMs?
>
> - Jeff

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