. OpenOffice.org, your favorite text editor, and your graphical browser work just as
well under a window manager as they do in a desktop.
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FIGURE 6.13 FVWM can run Firefox, and its menu bar helps you get to work.
Starting Up with a Window Manager
When you install a window manager with YaST, another entry is put into the display
manager??™s boot menu. When you log in, click Session Type and choose your window
manager.
Running FVWM
This window manager, which started life as the Feeble Virtual Window Manager (but is no
longer an acronym), is a favorite of more than a few alpha geeks. Gushing quotes from such
Linux stars as Eric Raymond, Alan Cox, and Linus Torvalds himself appear on FVWM??™s website.
The default FVWM desktop (see Figure 6.13) is somewhat plain, but clearly you can get
some work done on it.
The FVWM menu bar at the top displays the multiple workspaces FVWM supports; it loads
an analog clock and the playful ???Eyes??? toy that follows your mouse around while you??™re
working. FVWM loads an Xterm by default for command-line work, but the SUSE menu
gives you access to most of the same applications that run on the meatier desktops, including
OpenOffice.
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