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* Pierre-Yves Rofes <gentoo@×××××.fr> [07-01-05 11:42]: |
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> Hi, |
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> I think starting a new configuration from scratch is a really bad idea. |
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> It's boring and it will require hours to have something decent. |
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> You'd better to get a working config close from what you want, and then |
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> edit it to suit your personal needs and tastes. |
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Yeah, I agree to that. It's easier to adapt the someone's config than |
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start a new one from a scratch mainly beacuse you need to have a picture |
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of what you want from your WM and a right directions to start. I know |
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I should need menu, taskbar and pager, but what to read, where to |
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start from? If you're convicted only to a man pages then that's PITA. It |
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will take hours to figure out what sections of which man pages to |
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read. Written tutorials help a bit, but still it takes quite a lot to |
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become familiar with a simple options. IMHO, fvwm has a lack of the |
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good structured and a heavily cross linked documentation, the one like |
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mutt and mplayer have. There are so many options, available keywords |
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that can't be just bundled in a single man pages. There were also some |
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proposals of the default configuration which is good as a guideline, but |
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I'm sure that it wouldn't present not even the third of the available |
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customizations. So as a result you're ending up with a heavy research of |
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forums, mail lists, available configs, wiki and that takes time... |
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Daniel Vrcic |
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