From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 30 14: 3:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scrabble.freeuk.net (scrabble.freeuk.net [212.126.144.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1FA151A3 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 14:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from [212.126.147.119] (helo=cream.org) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 10oCjt-0000gG-00; Sun, 30 May 1999 21:03:25 +0000 Content-Length: 955 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990530200011.39904@ns.int.ftf.net> Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 22:00:47 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman To: Phil Regnauld Subject: Re: FreeBSD & X Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@calldei.com Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 30-May-99 Phil Regnauld wrote: > That's an understatement. GMC core dumps regularly, and Windowmaker > dies (taking X with it) every couple of hours on my box (1600x1200x32), > while KDE runs stable for weeks at a time (though it's a memory hog). Hrm. I must admit I've never tried Gnome (I just thought it looked cool). But I've grabbed the latest Window Maker 0.53 and it seems pretty solid on my machine, apart from Wprefs dying once. Even if we didn't use Window Maker, it may be possible to 'port' the theme to another manager like Afterstep. However, I think it would be a good way to help get FreeBSD onto the desktop if we could install a branded GUI at installation. And as I'm not a big fan of twm, I think a new manager is called for. How 'bout XDM? Do you think it would be a good idea to install that as standard if the user chose this new GUI option? --- Andrew Boothman http://sour.cream.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message