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Subject: Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD
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On Fri 02 Oct 2009 at 15:44:07 PDT Russell Jackson wrote:
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>I think most of us ion refugees have moved on to xmonad. While it isn't quite the same as
>ion, the xmonad developers don't have any philosophical issues
>supporting xft and xinerama. The only gripe I have is the blasted
>Haskel config file. Arr!

FWIW, there are some other tiling window managers in the portstree that are
worth considering:

    dwm
    awesome
    wmii
    musca
    i3
    ratpoison
    stumpwm

And I probably missed a few more. :-)