From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 15 17:49:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E245C37B43C for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:49:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 83792 invoked by uid 100); 16 Mar 2002 01:49:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15506.42140.471560.868300@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:49:16 -0600 To: paul beard Cc: Bob Kovacs , Salvo Bartolotta , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free BSD In-Reply-To: <3C928B17.5020300@mac.com> References: <1016219646.3c9247fe203dd@webmail.neomedia.it> <3C928B17.5020300@mac.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <3C928B17.5020300@mac.com>, paul beard 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. 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