From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 30 16:59:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E7014C40 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 16:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id JAA20691; Mon, 31 May 1999 09:29:06 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA29103; Mon, 31 May 1999 09:30:05 +0930 Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:30:05 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Andrew Boothman Cc: Phil Regnauld , chat@freebsd.org, chris@calldei.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD & X In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > http://sour.cream.org/ ----- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." -- Unknown To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message