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Date:      Mon, 31 May 1999 09:30:05 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
Cc:        Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>, chat@freebsd.org, chris@calldei.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD & X
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9905310928050.18481-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990530220047.andrew@cream.org>

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On Sun, 30 May 1999, Andrew Boothman wrote:

> 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?

Unless I'm mistaken, Jordan changed sysinstall a few weeks ago (prior to
3.2-R) to give the option of choosing between several window managers to be
installed. I don't think it does any desktop customization though, so that's
still something which could be done.

Kris

> ---
> Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>
> http://sour.cream.org/

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