Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:03:53 +0700 (ICT) From: pirat sriyotha <pirat@prime.oaep.go.th> To: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fave Window Manager... found it. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624085339.12875B-100000@prime.oaep.go.th> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980623181159.007f6100@mx.serv.net>
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hi, good news. but i have never heard of Fave Window Manager... well, you've got it, fvwm2. so you should go ahead with xemacs. try this hot one and let us know some of your comments. oh yes, xemacs is not a window manager. just try this editor once you've got your favorite wm. i love reading from newbies discussion. rgds, psr On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:11:59 -0700 > From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> > To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Fave Window Manager... found it. > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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