From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 22:58:37 2005 Return-Path: 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 9646F16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:58:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433F543D1F for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:58:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:57:37 -0600 Message-ID: <421D0A9A.2000109@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:58:34 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <476138570.20050223180240@wanadoo.fr> <421CD2EB.9060503@wilderness.dyn.dhs.org> <1763669737.20050223212628@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1763669737.20050223212628@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Feb 2005 22:57:38.0237 (UTC) FILETIME=[122D46D0:01C519FB] Subject: Re: Different OS's? Marketshare X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:58:37 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: >Laurence Sanford writes: > > > >>Well, I don't use KDE because I don't particularly like heavyweight >>software unless I need it ... >> >> > >Heavyweight in the sense of resources required, or complexity, or what? > >I got the impression that KDE was the one that everyone used. > > Hmm, now a different thread, perhaps? Different WM's marketshare? It's pretty much "to each his own" out here, I'd say. (see my earlier). >Which window manager most closely approximates the GUI of traditional >UNIX workstations? > > Well, once again, I dunno. I will mention that "AfterStep" is "NextStep"'s successor, I think. >Is it possible to install multiple X servers on the same machine so that >one can fire up whichever one strikes one's fancy at a given time? > > I don't see why not, although it'd probably be more common to simply kill one wm session and start another to save resources. Maybe it's possible. I don't know if, since you've just one DISPLAY (in theory, anyhow) you would configure it. Hmm, just tested. No can do, because just one DISPLAY. Maybe some X guru has a solution. GNOME on ttyv1, fluxbox on ttyv2, term on ttyv3 etc., etc.... Would be pretty cool. Now, if you have two video cards.... Kevin Kinsey