From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 22:10:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FB037B408 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A7EE52000128; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:13:18 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chip To: Matthew Graybosch Subject: Re: Best X Windows Manager for Newbies Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:12:41 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200109180156.f8I1uUQ18836@smtp-server3.tampabay.rr.com> <01091720011100.81299@chip.wiegand.org> <20010917230637.5dabbf51.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <20010917230637.5dabbf51.matthew@starbreaker.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01091722124101.81299@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 17 September 2001 20:06, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > I've tried XFce, Chip, and you're right about its performance. > However, I think that XFce depends on the GTK+ libraries. Okay, so is that a bad thing? I don't know what the significance of that is. > I know that GTK themes can be applied to XFce. I haven't tried that. I use my machine to get things done, not for play. As long as it does what I want it to, fine, I don't need a lot of eye-candy. Being able to use themes is not important to me. I know it is to some people, and that's just fine too. I don't understand what this all has to do with the subject of a window manager that is easy for newbies to use. Does it matter if it uses GTK+? -- Chip > ****** > Matthew Graybosch [matthew@starbreaker.net] > http://www.starbreaker.net :: where dreams and reality collide > "Screw Sartre. Hell isn't other people. Hell is debugging other > people's code." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message