Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 16:20:39 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Prefered X Window Manager? Message-ID: <19971101162039.65195@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199711010525.AAA09128@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Sat, Nov 01, 1997 at 12:25:53AM -0500 References: <19971101154510.10913@lemis.com> <199711010525.AAA09128@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Sat, Nov 01, 1997 at 12:25:53AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > Greg Lehey said: >> >> Yes, there are plenty of interesting wms, and I thought a lot before >> choosing it. A good alternative would be something like fvwm95, but I >> decided that if I was going to plunge newbies into FreeBSD, I didn't >> want to make it look like Windoze 95%. The main reason for the >> chapter was to give enough perspective to make it interesting for >> people to install X and do something halfway interesting with it. >> *Then*, if they have any curiosity, they'll go and do their own thing >> (and probably think me strange for the defaults I suggested :-) > > I agree -- the WM is relatively easy to change for a beginner (once > someone has created a work environment, the window manager becomes > more embedded on ones system.) I think that in your book, directing > someone to something that *works* is the best thing. That was exactly my consideration. After looking at my configuration, which has "just growed" over the last 7 years or so, I discovered an amazing amount of grunge and stuff that didn't work, but which I never tried to use. I hope I have it mostly cleaned up now :-) But I say that in the chapter, and point out that it's only a starting point. > It is probably a very good strategy to distinguish FBSD from W95. As > I know that you know one of the distinguishing things about X is > that you can really change the look and feel significantly. X is > hyper-flexible. Exactly. If I had given fvwm95, the users would probably never have thought to change anything. > All of the Free U**X systems are like a vast stack of Christmas presents > to open. Too many toys, and eventually one settles on a few of the toys > that one likes!!! There aren't very many really bad choices :-). Right. I wish I had more time to play with these things. Greg
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