If /opt/kde/bin is NOT in your path (you can check by typing 'echo $PATH'), fvwm95 will be launched as your window manager. This is a RedHat-customized wm that emulates - you guessed it - Win95, right down to the Start menu. To get KDE to run instead, edit ~/.bash_profile and where it says

 "PATH=$PATH:/something/something/something"

 "PATH=$PATH:/something/something/something:/opt/kde/bin"

There are some links mentioned below for it, but see the subcategory KDE (in the X Windows category) for detailed information.

hollis@andrew.cmu.edu

GNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. This is a graphical desktop environment, like KDE, but entirely built on open-source. The GNOME is still under heavy development, so no one should expect a working, or out-of-the-box compiling environment. Sources are available in tar and srpm from http://www.gnome.org

General information on all flavours of WM is available at http://www.plig.org/xwinman

homeier@astrophysik.uni-kiel.de

Those above are available at ftp.mklinux.apple.com and at the MkArchive. (See the question in the root category about getting precompiled binaries for distribution sites.)

jonh@cs.dartmouth.edu

Also available:
mlvwm, a macintosh-like window manager under development, still rather buggy but it does run. http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/member/tak/mlvwm.html
hcaley@tdl.com

Two additions and an update:
Afterstep is up to 1.0 (http://afterstep.edoc.com/), and it compiles cleanly under static or shared libs for linux-pmac and MkLinux.

Enlightenment is a new wm that looks incredible, and has been rewritten from scratch and is now memory-efficient and surprisingly fast.
http://www.rasterman.com.
The latest versions compile cleanly.

KDE is a project to create a whole suite of applications based on Qt, an object-oriented development library/widget set. Looks wonderful... there are ppc rpms at
ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/linuxppc/redhat/RPMS/ppc
The main page is:
http://www.kde.org/

-chuck
chuck@athera.ml.org
jonh@cs.dartmouth.edu, hcaley@tdl.com, charles.j.hagenbuch@williams.edu, chuck@athera.ml.org

If you are running MkLinux DR2.1, you can switch from twm to fvwm
by doing the following:  Copy /usr/lib/X11/.x11start to your home
directory and edit this file to replace "twm" by "fvwm2."

If you are using a modern redhat-based (such as LinuxPPC 1999 Q3 or MkLinux Release 1.0 or Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server 1.1) PowerPC Linux distro then you already have several precompiled / ready for use.

These include:

- Window Maker 0.53 (note this version has some nasty bugs in it, you really should get the source and compile the lastest version of it)
- Enlightenment Developer Release 0.15.5
- FVWM 2
- lesstif-MWM
- kwm (well, it's an intergrated part of the K Desktop Enviroment).
- IceWM (this one is fast, and looks pretty nice -- however the version on the current PowerPC Linux distros is really old and should not be used. Get the source and install).

You really should get a newer version, then the ones you got on your CD, since the versions you have, *MAY* have security issues in them, or have bugs, or have had many cool new features added to them.

Other Window Mangers you Can Find at the Web You May Like:

- Blackbox (fast, looks good)
- SCWM (fast, has many schemes that look just like enlightenment, extermely configuratorable.
- QVWM (Looks like Windows 95/98 by default, but very configureble).

And A Million Others, that I have most likely forgot about (or have been released since I did this message).

Look for Window Mangers in all of your favorite places -- like Freshmeat or themes.org.

WMX - slim, fit & very fast!
Look at:

http://www.realworld.ch/focus.html
for a precompiled ppc-binary.

... & enjoy life.

rgu