xfce with taskbar

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:43:35 -0600
begin  Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> spewed forth:

> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:20:25 -0400 Michael Scottaline
> <nbhs2 at i-2000.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:44:34 -0500
> > "David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> scribbled intuitively:
> > 
> > 
> > >Have you tried Blackbox?  What you have sounds similar.
> > ====================================
> > I have played w/ many different wm's [ice, xfce, windowmaker, fvwm,
> > and Enlightenment (up to v. 0.16.5), and the "big two"]. 
> > Ultimately, I keep coming back to Blackbox.
> > 
> 
> There was something essential that I found to be missing with
> Blackbox, but I can't remember what.  I'll have to try it again.  Oh,
> does it restart applications automatically?  I'm really stuck on that
> xfce feature - everything I run comes back on the same desktop I left
> it at restart.  Since I don't have a continuously running system
> (uptime averages 3-4 hours), that's an important feature.

That's called "session manglement" is the crap that drove me away from
XFCE.  You see, if you put, say, xdaliclock on the XDM root window, then
have it carry through to a user session, with session management, each
time you log in you get one more xdaliclock.  The system gets real slow
when several users (I have all the other systems in the house running as
xterminals) have over 100 instances each of xdaliclock piled up in the
corner of their screen.  And each upgrade I'd have to go back through all
the user's configurations and turn off session manglement. Horrible crap. 
But the XFCE maintainer likes it.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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