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Hi Holly, |
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I thought that if you liked it that much I thought I might as well |
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take a look. I've emerged it. It's running. Nice. |
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It seems to start esd by default. I'd need to turn that off. |
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More embedded below and at the end. |
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- Mark |
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On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote: |
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> I'm sitting here with my jaw on the floor. |
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<SNIP> |
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> I upgraded and just now booted into it, which is why I'm sitting with my |
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> jaw on the floor. |
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Cover it if you're still spreading germs! ;-) |
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> It works...! |
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> It's gorgeous...! |
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It's now running on my AMD64 machine and it is quite pretty. |
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> The new site is up, and it's in English...! (no docs yet, though, as far |
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> as I saw.) |
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> I changed my layout to dock (which looks a lot like XFCE, but all |
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> transparent), and when I click on one of the icons-- let's say the OO.o |
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> icon, a menu that actually has all my word processing programs appears! |
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> The Firefox icon menu shows all my 'interact with the web' apps, and the |
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> thunderbird icon menu has all my 'communicate with others' programs. |
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> OK, maybe not quite all of them, but almost. More than enough to get |
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> along with and give me some choice (I have multiple alternatives |
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> applications for some types of usage situations), and enough to see that |
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> 1) both KDE and GNOME menu listings are being read, and 2) applications |
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> are being recognized and sorted reasonably appropriately. I probably |
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> will want to customize it a bit further, but on the whole, I would say |
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> it JustWorks-- it's certainly useable for me, as is, out of the box. |
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> Which is unbelievable, for any variant of FVWM, imo. |
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I don't quite see this part. Maybe I haven't found them yet. It's only |
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been runnign 10 minutes or so. |
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One thing I do not see is my special little application drawers I had |
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on my Gnome panel. Not a biggie... |
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> This is a gigantic leap from the previous versions I've used, and I |
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> think I've just switched WMs. Obviously there's been a huge shakeup |
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> somewhere, but the site doesn't say anything about it, that I saw. |
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> Does anybody happen to follow development of this and know what happened? |
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> I'm just stunned (in a good way). |
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> Holly |
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> -- |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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There were some setup instructions at the very end: |
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* After installation, execute following commands: |
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* $ cp -r /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/addons/Xresources ~/.Xresources |
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* $ cp -r /usr/share/fvwm-crystal/addons/Xsession ~/.xinitrc |
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* Authors of fvwm-crystal recommend also installing |
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* the following applications: |
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* app-admin/gkrellm |
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* app-misc/rox |
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* media-gfx/scrot |
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* x11-misc/xlockmore |
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* x11-misc/xpad |
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* x11-misc/xscreensaver |
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* x11-terms/aterm |
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How much of this did you do? I've done none and it's running. |
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Quite nice. |
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- Mark |
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