From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 23 18:12:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19380 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:12:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19344 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:12:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from desktop-pentium (dialup618.serv.net [207.207.65.18]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA01738 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:12:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980623181159.007f6100@mx.serv.net> X-Sender: fewtch@mx.serv.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:11:59 -0700 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Fave Window Manager... found it. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Finally settled on a favorite Window manager, one that's neither too complicated nor too feature-free for this newbie -- it happens to be fvwm2 (no laughing, now, this is fvwm2, not plain old fvwm). I spent a good part of the day today configuring it the way I like (getting colors of different things to all look good together is tough if you're not a graphic designer or used to designing GUIs). Looks pretty nice, runs what I want it to run, can be easily configured to run anything else, and the built in modules are nice (except that the 'backer' module seems broken - it doesn't work the way it's stated in the docs, and won't change desktop background colors, nor set a pixmap for a background. Any info on this from anyone in the know? BTW, for those who want a REALLY simple but basically featureless window manager, ctwm might be the choice for you... might be good for a REALLY raw newbie. It's so simple and easy to use it's disgusting, but you can't do anything much with it. Tried Afterstep and Windowmaker and decided I didn't much care for either - couldn't figure them out, really... (expecially Windowmaker.. gave me all kinds of headaches trying to get icons onto new program 'squares'), and Enlightenment is just too ridiculously graphical for my tastes. Fvwm95 isn't bad, but why use a fake imitation of Win95... and KDE was completely beyond me (I couldn't even get it up and running except for a brief flash of the desktop followed by being kicked back out of X)...so fvwm2 it is until I graduate from newbie to intermediate status anyway. Tim -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message