From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 3 20:19:19 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 95AF437B401 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:19:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5333543E42 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:19:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tapeworm@insekta.org) Received: from [12.246.29.145] (helo=cenobite.insekta.org) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 188Yhj-0003Ht-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 20:19:11 -0800 Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:19:43 -0800 From: erk! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Window/File Manager Message-Id: <20021103201943.7e502b68.tapeworm@insekta.org> In-Reply-To: <1036382137.57682.25.camel@lobo> References: <1036382137.57682.25.camel@lobo> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 03 Nov 2002 21:55:37 -0600 Ryan Sommers wrote: > 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. without a doubt, blackbox. i like fluxbox, and on my desktop system, i use waimea..but blackbox is more minimal than either, and has *zero* dependencies. even though it's minimal, it can also be configured to be really nice looking, which counts for a lot (to me, anyway). if you want *really* minimal, and don't care much about appearances, i've heard that ratpoison is more than adequate :> i've never used it myself, but if you just want a really plain x session, and the ability to view multiple terminals simultaneously, it should be fine. - erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message