Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:49:16 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (off topic?) Best desktop Message-ID: <4748560C.1080608@math.arizona.edu> In-Reply-To: <47482F22.1030705@gmail.com> References: <4746A090.9080400@gmail.com> <4746B553.1000600@math.arizona.edu> <14989d6e0711230502q712e0282tadeea4062640624c@mail.gmail.com> <47482F22.1030705@gmail.com>
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christian Walther wrote: > >> On 23/11/2007, Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> wrote: >> >>> Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >>> >> [...] >> >>> I like to make my own "desktop". >>> >>> >> Sounds familiar. :-) >> >>> Predrag's Recipe for Desktop Happiness: >>> >>> Take OpenBox3, Xfce4-panel, Rox-filer & feh +applications you like like. >>> Edit .xsession as follows >>> >>> > > Well I pretty much went this way: > > abrwm (evilwm) (tinywm didn't have vwindows), fbpanel, xv, idesk, > transset-dt, I have not selected a fm yet... For the most part I > really like it (lean and mean) but one feature that several my apps > support is transparent windows but seems abrwm for what ever reason > doesn't support this and will completely ignore any windows with it... > so I am looking for the next smallest wm that can do virtual windows > and transparency... I know openbox, ion, xfwm all can do it but want > something even lighter. > > There is a very good review of all available WM http://xwinman.org/ I checked once and I think more or less all of them are ported to FreeBSD. Have you pick. Be happy:-) Cheers Predra > - -- > Aryeh M. Friedman > Developer, not business, friendly > http://www.flosoft-systems.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHSC8iJ9+1V27SttsRAjSlAJwKuH5e+KpZDAcs84aRUf5ErR6U9wCgjV5T > tg8/85bPgfU31cqWeWdFJiQ= > =Wfbh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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