From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 18:39: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2978E37B40C for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25979 invoked by uid 100); 19 Sep 2001 01:38:54 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15271.63277.701513.234452@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 20:38:53 -0500 To: Micke Josefsson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best X Windows Manager for Newbies In-Reply-To: <66048948@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Micke Josefsson types: > 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? No, it's not just you. I don't bother with a file manager, so I never use the icons. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure others do use file managers. For the record, I use lwm, as I've as yet to find a more minimalist window manager - ignoring ratpoison, anyway. The "taskbar" is a popup on the right mouse button. The other two buttons run user-specified commands; I use 9menu to create two custom menus. The window decoration has one button. Clicking that closes the window. All other window manipulations are done anywhere on the border, so no other decorations are needed. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message