From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 11:21:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A04637B405 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g3AILSZ93709; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:21:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:21:27 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: mpd Cc: Daniel Blankensteiner , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GUI's Message-ID: <20020410112127.A93680@tao.thought.org> References: <001601c1e0b5$f85c5e70$6800a8c0@rafter> <20020410135250.A8630@rochester.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020410135250.A8630@rochester.rr.com>; from mpd6334@cs.rit.edu on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:52:50PM -0400 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community 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 On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:52:50PM -0400, mpd wrote: > As previously asked, please don't send HTML to the list. > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:34:30PM +0200, Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I want to try out all the GUI's for FreeBSD (4.4), so will anyone name > > them all? > > > > Gnome, Kde.......... > > If you have the ports collection installed, you can see all of them > in the /usr/ports/x11-wm directory. > > > > > > > > > Will you also write which one you like the most? and maybe why? > > > > I'm in the console 95+% of the time, but when I use X, I > prefer blackbox because it's light but allows me to > stay away from the rodent for the most part (ratpoison > was a little too spartan.) > > > db > > mike > I admit to being from the pre-historic times; my favorite WM is still ctwm. It is a much improved version of the original 'twm'; ctwm lets you have multiple WorkSpaces and so forth without chewing up tons of resources. I still prefer the CLI--where I can keep my fingers on the job instead of fmessing with the bloody mouse. For people looking for a (*barf*) DOS/Windows-like interface, KDE will make you feel very much safe and sound. my dime's worth... gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message