Web design templates - Chapter 9 . Using X 335 . IceWM
Chapter 9 . Using X 335 . IceWM IceWM is available from http://www.icewm.org. It is a nice window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is able to emulate the look of Motif, OS/2, and Windows and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps. . Sawfish Sawfish is available from http://sawmill.sourceforge.net/. It is an extensible window manager using a LISP-based scripting language. All window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the extension language. Sawfish is now the default window manager used with GNOME. . Window Maker Window Maker is available from http://www. windowmaker.org/. It is an X11 window manager designed to emulate the look and feel of the NeXTStep GUI. It is relatively fast, feature rich, and easy to configure and use. Desktop environments Window managers provide a good look and feel for your desktop, but until recently there were no real rules on getting applications to look and work the same. However, the new desktop environments coming on to the computing scene are changing this. A desktop environment includes a suite of applications, file manager, control panel, window manager, and many other components. They are designed to work together with the same look and feel. The two most popular desktop environments are KDE and GNOME. Every new user to Linux owes it to himself or herself to try out both environments and decide which he or she likes best. KDE KDE is available from http://www.kde.org. The first large-scale desktop environment for Linux was KDE. It is a mature project that offers an easy-to-use environment bundled with many applications, a window manager, and an easy-to-use control panel. KDE is built around the Qt libraries from Trolltech. Developers can write other applications using these libraries and have them fit together and work very well with KDE. The Qt libraries were once under a restrictive license that caused it some acceptance problems, but that situation has recently changed. GNOME The Ximian GNOME distribution is available from http://www.ximian.com. GNOME, GNU Network Object Model Environment, was originally started as an alternative to KDE, since the Qt libraries that KDE are based on were not under a free license. GNOME was originally an independent project, but a company named Helix Code was started by the core developers as a way to promote and fund the project. Helix Code has since changed their name to Ximian. They provide an excellent GNOME distribution that includes many applications, the sawfish window manager, a control panel, and many desktop themes. It also includes an easy-to-use updating tool that lets you keep your system current by automatically downloading new updates.
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