-----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-----