Victor Eijkhout wrote: >I've never seen the point of these environments on Unix. > >My vote has gone for a long time, and still goes, to fvwm2 as window >manager. It's fast and still very configurable. Between that for >windows management and my own shell scripting skills I have no need >for further functionality. > >And fink works pretty good on average. I had a conflict between some >packages a while ago, but the guys on the mailing lists are very >helpful in overcoming that sort of thing. > >V. Thanks Victor, i'll look into that too. Brian s