[geeks] What graphical environments are people here using on Solaris?

Tue Oct 7 15:56:42 CDT 2003

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:42:45PM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> I am inclined to use mainly CDE since it comes with Solaris 9, but I 
> was wondering if anyone finds other environments preferable for daily 
> work on Solaris.  I am familiar with many environments, however, have 
> never been tempted to replace CDE on Solaris with them.  I'm looking 
> for stuff that doesn't break any underlying software, is reasonably 
> quick, and is not ugly.  Thoughts regarding gnome, kde, and windowmaker 
> (my old favorite), keeping CDE, etc... ?

When I used a Solaris console routinely, I used WindowMaker or aewm.
They weren't exactly swift machines though.