From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 8 22:07:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22113 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 22:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au [130.194.166.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22099 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 22:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au) Received: from babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05779; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:06:47 +1000 Message-Id: <199810090506.PAA05779@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:06:44 +1000 (EST) From: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au Reply-To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: What's your Window Manager preference? To: scqdaf@globalserve.net cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; BOUNDARY="-1031644250-1482041942-907909611=:25648" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ---1031644250-1482041942-907909611=:25648 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII On 8 Oct, Dennis Favro wrote: > What's everyone's window manager preference? I've finally gotten the > time to get FreeBSD up and running, and I'd like to hear what everyone else > uses. > > I've tried out fvwm2, amivwm, twm and the K Desktop. They're all pretty > good. I'd like to give mlvwm a shot, (I'm a Mac user) but it needs a rc > file that I have /no/ idea how to go about creating. > My favourites: * icewm - small memory footprint, easy to configure, can look like Win95 for recent converts from Windows We run this on general purpose machines for people new to Unix * Window Maker - still in beta, but it's stable, elegant and powerful The best window manager for all us who were too young or too poor to buy a NeXt machine once upon a time... Cheers Graeme -- Graeme Cross -- Water Studies Centre, Monash University Random thought #232 (Collect all 234) Make something than even an idiot can use and only an idiot will use it. ---1031644250-1482041942-907909611=:25648 Content-Type: APPLICATION/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3i iQB1AwUBNh2Z5GAiycRwLbVJAQHf4AMAtl5PM3RoPd8rzfsE+7IyMl7/c6AyWtdc qq2TD6eEYCZE9GeHA0pJXcq1XSFuY+R8jRaOmaYlCKmtAjbRJLeW/B1SEXbCd9Ez 2aZGj4F404naWfQs2YgQUEHGa6EG1+of =oyPW -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ---1031644250-1482041942-907909611=:25648-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message