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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 2000 07:20:29 -0600
From:      "Joseph E. Royce" <joe@freyr.cba.ualr.edu>
To:        terry@venus.sunquest.com
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: window manager probs
Message-ID:  <20001108072029.A1899@freyr.cba.ualr.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5ED89301AE60D311AAD500508B0EF55F50E0A7@dd-mail.intern.dd.dk>; from bbl@dk.damgaard.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:16:36AM %2B0100
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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
> 
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