From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 2:58:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA5437B400 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.localhost.local (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by freebsd.localhost.local (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g3S16OJ00577; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.com) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:06:24 -0700 From: Nathan To: "Maicon Stihler" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best window manager Message-Id: <20020427180624.1a259912.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> In-Reply-To: <001801c1ecac$b5bee080$61e487c8@LocalHost> References: <001801c1ecac$b5bee080$61e487c8@LocalHost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:58:22 -0300 "Maicon Stihler" wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering what wm should I install on my FBSD box. I need something that is easy to configure and that is customizable, fast and with a clean look. I like the Icewm, but I dont know any tool to configure the menus and the look and feel of it. Does anybode have an opinion about it? note. I dont like kde :) > I second the previous messages - try Blackbox. I had been using KDE up until a week or two ago when I realized that I just didn't need about 99% of the things that KDE was offering. I tried AfterStep but hated the Dock, then I tried FVWM, now I'm with Blackbox. My main complaint with FVWM is the long, and fairly involved, config file(s). Blackbox was just what I wanted right out of the "box", no pun intented. I installed a couple little helper utils to top it off - bbkeys (key bindings) and bbpager (desktop pager). So far I'm thrilled with Blackbox. My only small complaint is that now and then bbkeys seems to hiccup and I lose keyboard control in Opera for a period, but this is infrequent and it can be resolved (for whatever reason) by opening-->closing bbconf (a gui config util). I haven't tried Fluxbox. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message