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Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers
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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0600
hal <hal@cc.usu.edu> wrote:

> For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the:
>      default window manager?

if you don't install any wm or D.E. then there's probably only the
ancient twm

> I am currently installing KDE from source and it
> is taking forever.
> 
> #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3
> # make

you have the choice for kde-lite btw
(/usr/ports/x11/kde-lite)

<nitpick>
KDE, Gnome and xfce4 are Desktop Environments,
they use a wm but they are not wm's itselves
</nitpick>

what kind of wm or D.E. do you want ?
one of the most simplistic and light-weight ones is wm2
(see /usr/ports/x11-wm/wm2) takes less than 1 minute to compile afair

if you want a desktop-environment, xfce4 is interesting (lightweight),
but if you're coming from a MS-windows environment you might like KDE
better