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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:52:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>
Cc:        Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Windows managers
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980412155120.3665D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <87n2dqbwy1.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>

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On 12 Apr 1998, stephen farrell wrote:

> "Martin Von_Schantz" <ikaros_net@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello, I have been recommended the KDE desktop environment by some 
> > 'Linux users' :)
> > it doesn't seem that BSD friendly unfourtunately so I wondered
> > if anyone had a better windows manager to recommend.
> 
> As others have said, check out the KDE port (see
> http://freebsd.org/ports/ for more info).  However, as far as window
> managers go, I'd recommend icewm highly (and I've used them all).
> It's extremely fast, extremely small, has ways to do everything from
> the keyboard, looks very nice (and look is highly configurable), plus
> it has a cute little BSD button ;-).

Yes, but with the fvwm95 and fbsd-icons port, you get that extra sexy
FreeBSD 95 icon + start menu. ;)

- alex

"We are upping our standards ... so up yours."
  - Pat Paulsen for US of A Prez, 1988.


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