On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 11:45:03AM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 19 October 2001 11:24, Brian opined on the topic: [TCLUG] OT: > Window managers for the "other" windows > > Here at work, where I'm forced to use windoze, I've made a startling > > discovery. On Windows98 when you replace the shell=explorer.exe line > > with shell=command.com in the system.ini, you get that warm fuzzy xinit > > feeling on startup. Something else profound.. windoze is actually > > STABLE without Explorer. It's faster and crashed programs are reporting > > "I'm sorry, I just can't run anymore, would you please shut me down?" > > instead of "OH MY GOD!!! the world has ended! Active desktop, the MOST > > IMPORTANT tool in Windows, has CRASHED!!! Please restart NOW or face > > consequences unforeseen!". > > > > So, my question. Are there any window managers available for windoze to > > replace explorer? I'm currently running Powerdesk from Ontrack and it > > does a decent job, but a start menu would be kinda nice. I'm starting > > to get this funny illusion that windoze is *MY* opersting system now and > > I want to keep it that way. :-) > > Litestep (www.litestep.org, net, com) has a nice NextStep feel to it. > Haven't used it in quite a while, so I can't say as to its stability or > functionality. Back in the day, though, it was pretty good. > > Dave > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE70FiQA68l26XsZUYRAoFbAKDYPdSwSEKVcfiwa5jAGrYUncTz3QCguoJg > vnJLgv5yINldBd9ziHOrKEs= > =yxHm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list I use LiteStep at home under Win4Lin. It works great. I also use it on the laptop system I have at work that has to run Win xx. -- _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list