From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 3 20:17:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD21537B401 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:17:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from web10402.mail.yahoo.com (web10402.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85F5043E77 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:17:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdbrett@yahoo.com.au) Message-ID: <20021104041757.5805.qmail@web10402.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [136.186.1.114] by web10402.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:17:57 EST Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:17:57 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Brett=20Harris?= Subject: Re: Window/File Manager To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1036382137.57682.25.camel@lobo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Ryan, > What are your favorite ultra-light WM's and/or FMs? > I'm just looking for > something that does the job, looking nice would be > an added benefit but > I doubt I'll have a high color depth to play with > anyway. You can't go wrong with Blackbox (or fluxbox, which is very similar). It can look as detailed or as simple as you want. I use it on my low spec laptop and workstations. If you want a nice looking theme, I suggest 'AlmostX', but you might want to get rid of some of the gradients in it, as rendering them chew unnecessary CPU power. It's been quite usable on my p120 thinkpad. As far as file managers go, I would suggest perhaps XFtree from XFce. I've not used every file manager, but I have used this in the past, its been good and has a small footprint. You can assign file associations too. I've used these both in the past, in a sort of hybrid blackbox-xfce manner, and it served me well. Hope this helped, Brett Harris http://careers.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Careers - 1,000's of jobs waiting online for you! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message