Re: Using Gnome on Dgital Unix

["James M. Cape" <jcape jcinteractive com>]

Stephane Piton wrote:
> 
> Yes, thanks... I try enlightenment and except a brown screen with a
> beautiful
> grey line in the middle I can't obtain anything...
> Only way to get out: reboot of my term...:( Where can I have info about
> this?

There wasn't a kewl progress meter about 1/4 of the way down? How long
did you wait?

E has an eye-candy loading animation where the desktop looks like this:

----------------------
|                    |
|   E Loading 50%    |
|   >>>>>>           |
|                    |
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|                    |
|                    |
|                    |
|                    |
----------------------

when the progress meter reaches  100%, the bars in the middle separate
to reveal the desktop:
----------------------
|                    |
|                    |
|                    |
|--------------------|
|********************|
|********************|
|--------------------|
|                    |
|                    |
|                    |
----------------------

----------------------
|                    |
|--------------------|
|********************|
|********************|
|********************|
|********************|
|********************|
|********************|
|--------------------|
|                    |
----------------------

----------------------
|--------------------| <-- Dragbar
|********************|
|********************|
|********************|
|********************|
|********************| <-- Desktop
|********************|
|********************|
|********************|
|[F     H C N      T]| <-- Panel
----------------------

So you're terminal, your network, or your Alpha must be really slow, or
there definately is a problem with E and your setup.

> BTW which WM can I use with Gnome? Is Afterstep Gnome compliant?

Gnome-compliant WMs include:

Enlightenment
Window Maker [http://www.windowmaker.org] (the official GNUstep WM, also
works w/ KDE, made by a couple of the core AfterStep developers)
IceWM
Blackbox 0.50.2+ w/ patches [http://blackbox.wiw.org] (I think)

    Jim Cape
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