From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 22:58:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE3F37B413 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8I5wJh15977; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:58:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010917222208.054b4f37.matthew@starbreaker.net> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:58:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Matthew Graybosch Subject: Re: Best X Windows Manager for Newbies Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mstark1@cfl.rr.com 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 I also use icewm all the time. I use it in conjunction with dfm which also is very convenient. I tend to open a shell whenever I want to do anything I hardly use the icons at all. Is that just me or do we all operate in that way? /Micke On 18-Sep-2001 Matthew Graybosch wrote: > Well, Mike, both KDE (especially v2.2) and GNOME/Enlightenment > are pigs. Enlightenment's a pig by itself, but it's a very pretty > pig. You just might be able to make a silk purse from E's ear. > > But I digress. I find that IceWM looks quite a bit like the > Windows interface: taskbar on bottom, button triggering main menu > in bottom left corner, etc. It also runs like a bat out of Hell, > and doesn't hog much memory or CPU. > > If you want to check it out, look at [ http://www.icewm.org/ ]. > Since I use it most of the time, I can answer questions related > to installation and/or configuration. > > Also, you might consider running Window Maker (website at [ > http://www.windowmaker.org ]). It's interface is based on > NeXTStep/Mac, and is almost as fast as IceWM. However, you might > find IceWM easier to get used to at first. > > Let me know if you have any other questions. > ****** > Matthew Graybosch [matthew@starbreaker.net] > http://www.starbreaker.net :: where dreams and reality collide > > The SNAFU Principle: "True communication is possible only between > equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for > telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the > truth." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.4-RC ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message