Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:29:35 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Window managers (was: Different OS's? Marketshare) Message-ID: <20050224035935.GI36248@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050223222900.X5778@frambozen.monochrome.org> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAkUru9e0Xgkm1jphiEj0758KAAAAQAAAAVNKPkcwi5Uq3w6wWDp/biAEAAAAA@video-phones-evdo.com> <200502231419.54629.m.hauber@mchsi.com> <1505159320.20050223203426@wanadoo.fr> <20050223222900.X5778@frambozen.monochrome.org>
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--lNUIWTPMMv70yN+D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 23 February 2005 at 22:51:26 -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> [...] I keep wondering if [...] I should just continue with FreeBSD >> and install X on the machine (and KDE, probably, since it seems to be >> popular, although I welcome suggestions). >> >> Which window manager is the closest to classic UNIX window managers >> (as opposed to wannabe Windows products)? > > It's not clear what you mean by "classic UNIX window managers" - maybe > CDE or Motif? Possibly. It could also be something primitive like twm, of course. That's available in the Ports Collection for people who want the bad old days back. > In any case I've never used them and can't answer that specific > question. I'd suggest fvwm2. > As for the former... I installed KDE on my 4.10 machine a while ago > just to have a look-see, and it seemed *very* Windows-y to > me. "Start" menu, integrated file/web browser, etc. I don't care for > it, and didn't bother reinstalling it after going to 5.3. If you > don't want a "wannabe Windows product", I think you might not like > KDE. I think I could agree with that. > Before and after KDE, I've been using fvwm2 - it's a relatively > plain but very configurable window manager, though I suppose you > could make it as fancy as you wanted. Heh. I moved to fvwm2 from mwm (Motif window manager), and there wasn't too much difference there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --lNUIWTPMMv70yN+D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCHVEnIubykFB6QiMRAqXlAJ4rZ3/wUMpMMZNrLs2eV2R4W8xUfACgi+Cv 62C/L0+QPhrWUptRtgDMxW8= =mjKA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lNUIWTPMMv70yN+D--
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