From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 8 5:20:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freyr.cba.ualr.edu (freyr.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3247537B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 05:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from joe@localhost) by freyr.cba.ualr.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA8DKUG01921; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 07:20:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 07:20:29 -0600 From: "Joseph E. Royce" To: terry@venus.sunquest.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: window manager probs Message-ID: <20001108072029.A1899@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> References: <5ED89301AE60D311AAD500508B0EF55F50E0A7@dd-mail.intern.dd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <5ED89301AE60D311AAD500508B0EF55F50E0A7@dd-mail.intern.dd.dk>; from bbl@dk.damgaard.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:16:36AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:16:36AM +0100, Bjarne Blichfeldt wrote: > My current environment at work : > > Miata 500au, ELSA Gloria Synergi video card, > FreeBSD -stable > XFree86 4.0.1 > KDE 1.1.2 > > I have also used fvwm2 and icewm, and have never had any problems, at > least not related to windowmanagers. > > > mvh, > Bjarne Blichfeldt > I use Windowmaker and tried vtwm and they both work fine with XFree86 3.3.6. My system is a PC164 and a Oxygen ACX video card. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry R. Friedrichsen [mailto:terry@venus.sunquest.com] > Sent: 7. november 2000 19:03 > To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > Subject: window manager probs > > > > I hope this isn't the wrong place for this, but I see no other Alpha- > specific group, and I'm fairly certain this is an Alpha-specific problem. > > Which window manager do y'all use under FreeBSD/alpha (or /AXP, as it says > on the CDs)? I'm trying to use vtwm, but it has problems; I see by the > mailing list archive (in a year-old message) that the problems have been > reported previously, but under a *different* window manager (afterstep, > which I hadn't heard of before). > > (I just installed FreeBSD/alpha version 4.1 with XFree86 3.3.6 on an > AlphaStation 255/233 with an S3 ViRGE/DX 4 MB video board.) > > It would appear that the problems are actually XFree86 problems, unless > several different window managers do things in the same incorrect way. > > Does anyone use FreeBSD/alpha as an X platform? Which window managers > are known to work/not work well? > > Thanks for any help. > > Terry R. Friedrichsen > > terry@venus.sunquest.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message