Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:49:16 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1016675357.bd02c4@mired.org> To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> Cc: Bob Kovacs <bkovacs@mindspring.com>, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD Message-ID: <15506.42140.471560.868300@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <3C928B17.5020300@mac.com> References: <1016219646.3c9247fe203dd@webmail.neomedia.it> <3C928B17.5020300@mac.com>
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In <3C928B17.5020300@mac.com>, paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> typed: > f you want to add a > more hospitable UI, there are many options, all along the > performance/comfort curve, from black box or [ugh] twm to KDE and > Gnome. Come now, twm is a *long* way from that end of the curve. I'm not familiar with blackbox, but lwm has a much higher performance level than twm. There are a number of editors at the lwm level, the catch being that most of the are configured with gcc. Things don't stop there, though. ratpoison goes a couple of steps further. plpwm - part of the plwm port - is about even with ratpoison, but much more configurable than even twm. It's also my window manager of choice, but I wrote it, so that's a given. > Anyway, I count 79 window manager entries in /usr/ports/x11-wm on > one of my FreeBSD boxes. Add to that the themes and skins that you > can add, and there has to be something for just about everyone. > KDE2 and fvwm have the Windows[tm] emulation thing down so > starting with one of them might make sense. Last time I looked, there were Windows emulators for several flavors of Windows, a Mac emulator, and an Amiga emulator. There are probably others as well. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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