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Grant Sewell wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:03:48 +0100 > Neil Winchurst wrote: > >> I thought I would have a look at fluxbox. I run Kubuntu Gutsy. It >> installed fine. No menu awith right-click. Saw lots of suggestions >> viaGoogle, most of which seemed unnecessarily complicated. Anyway, >> finally ran sudo update-menus and then right-click worked as expected. >> >> I was surprised that neither Firefox nor Thunderbird appear in the >> menus, at least I have not found them yet. I have added them as >> keyboard short cuts. >> >> I have seen suggestions that I should add rox as a file manager. >> Another idea was thunar. I am wondering now, why would I need to add >> a file manager? >> >> Any one on the list that has used fluxbox? Any comments, suggestions, >> thoughts please? >> >> TIA >> >> Neil Winchurst > > Since you're looking at skinny WMs, have you tried Sawfish? Many > people will try and tell you that Sawfish is *supposed* to be used as a > WM under Gnome (ie instead of Metacity, or whatever), but it does > pretty bloomin' well on its own. Give it a shot. :) > > Grant. > I have had a first look at Sawfish in Google and it appears to need Gnome. Since I use Kubuntu with KDE and hate Gnome with a passion I wonder if Sawfish will work OK with Kubuntu? Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html