Brian, I use Fluxbox for recording but I'll use KDE for mixing and sometimes mastering. Fluxbox is very simple and puts no strain on your system. On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:02 -0800, Brian Dunn wrote: > So you guys helped me pick a distro, and i'm pretty > happy with it. Lets here the verdicts, what window > manager? Gnome 2.12 is what i've been using, but it > isn't the most stable. Sometimes i can't logout and i > have to switch to a vt and kill it. The absence of > easily configurable menus has me sticking all my music > apps in a "drawer," where those without icons apear as > big feet that must be mouse-overed until i get > tool-tipped to even know that program it is. I could > work around/live with it but then i resized one day > with <ctrl>+<alt>+- to read some fine print and all o' > the sudden the horizontal refresh was busted like an > old television. the whole screen was cycling to the > left at a dizying pace and my muse cursor disapeared. > Even after killing X and restarting this nonsence was > still going on and i hate having to reboot my machine. > So now i'm playing with e16... before i invest in > realy figuring out how to use it, what do any of you > using a jack studio setup with like MusE and Ardor and > the like prefer? > > Thanks, > Brian -- Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner The Fuzzy Dice http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html "As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of Pennsylvania for his "Pennsylvania Fireplace", c. 1744