Desktop Environment
===================

As I  wrote here previously [1],[2],[3],[4]  I have started to  use the
FVWM on my non-IRIX desktops at home and at work. I have been using the
FVWM on my main home workstation since 2003 (I think) but it was on the
SGI with IRIX  (it might sound unusual to replace  the SGI desktop with
much more basic  FVWM but it worked  much faster this way on  a low end
Indy -  and I decided  to keep that  environment on faster  SGIs, too).
On  the  "normal"  Linux  computers I  had  several  different  desktop
environments like the GNOME  (up to 2.x) or the Unity.  I used the FVWM
on Linux in distant past (I still have somewhere a Toshiba 100CT laptop
with Slackware 9 and with the FVWM).

Now I  use the  FVWM (which is  set up to  have colors  and decorations
similar to the SGI's 4Dwm window manager) on my ARM desktop (the ODROID
XU-4) and on my work remote  workstation (the Sun Microsystems Ultra 40
computer, which is 2x dual core AMD64 system). I thought initially that
I will  miss some desktop features  but I still miss  nothing and enjoy
easier and  more customizable controls  of the desktop. On  my portable
devices I still  use their original environments (the  Unity8 on Ubuntu
Touch and the  Unity7 on my GPD Pocket laptop).  But I'm thinking about
complete re-install  of the  GPD Pocket's system.  If I  will encourage
myself to  do it  then I  will also  try to  set up  the FVWM  for this
device.

And if my BlackBird arrive (I still have no shipping confirmation) then
I will probably use the FVWM on this machine, too.



P.S.  This post  was created  on the  SGI Indigo  with the  4Dwm window
manager and  the Indigo Magic  Desktop environment.  I have no  FVWM on
this machine... ;-)


References:

[1] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2019_04_06.txt
[2] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2019_04_04.txt
[3] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2019_04_02.txt
[4] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2019_04_01.txt