[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Calum Benson]

On 10 May 2008, at 16:56, Frank Batschulat wrote:

>> GNOME isn't a WM at all.  You can use any
>> EWMH-compliant WM that you   like with GNOME.
>
> actually this is a nice theory but not practical - I can not use any  
> other WM on Solaris/Opensolaris yet because there is no other  
> available in a package format

True, there are none yet on pkg.opensolaris.org.  But <http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000 
 > has an IPS package for fvwm, as does <http://blastwave.network.com:10000 
 >, which also has a package for xfce.  Both of those should work fine  
with GNOME (I haven't tried them myself though).  There are also  
packages for lwm and icewm, which probably won't work so well with  
GNOME, but might be good enough.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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