From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 11:31:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2out.umbc.edu (mx2out.umbc.edu [130.85.253.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B852537B42C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:31:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu) Received: from linux2.gl.umbc.edu (IDENT:gmiddl1@linux2.gl.umbc.edu [130.85.60.16]) by mx2out.umbc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00893; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:31:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:31:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "G. Jason Middleton" To: Jim Mock Cc: Subject: Re: window managers which one? In-Reply-To: <20010419142230.B3012@guinness.osdn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds good thanks for the info guys! Jason On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Jim Mock wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 at 14:01:14 -0400, G. Jason Middleton wrote: > > I am installing kde2 from the ports...(i just cvs'ed the ports) so it > > is installing 2.1.1..... whatever. I am running an amd 266 with 128 > > megs of ram. It has been installing for the past 2 hours!! Anyway > > can anyone make a good recommendation as to which window man i should > > use? GNOME KDE??? > > KDE2 takes *forever* to compile. It's huge. Give it some time to do > it's thing. > > > I am trying to get completely away from win2k/98. I use my machine > > for MP3's cd-burning, and just regualr run-of-the-mill crap...Word > > Processing Access...etc etc....and random admin crap. > > You can do this stuff no matter which window manager you run. > > > so the final question is which window manager would be the best for > > me? Regards, > > The one you decide is best for you. Play with different ones and make > the choice yourself. After all, just because someone on the list likes > something it doesn't mean you will. > > - jim > > -- > - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - > - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message