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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:34:47 -0400
From:      "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: win managers/where's Pine?
Message-ID:  <000a01bfda0c$49b49f60$bbdda4d8@beefstew>
References:  <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D70267BF88@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com>

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I tried wxm. talk about clean! ( I think wm2 is even more barebones. )
/stand/sysinstall somewhere durring my playing around also installed some
files w/an "ice" prefix (?).
But wxm seems "fast" and clean -what I was looking for. I'm going to play w/
this wm.

Also where's PINE? The mail manager?

Thank you.





----- Original Message -----
From: Jukka Similä <jukka.simila@sveg.se.sykes.com>
To: 'leegold' <goldtech@worldpost.com>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 3:25 AM
Subject: RE: win managers


>
> > can anyone recommend a simple and well documented (i need
> > more than man
> > pages) win manager.
>
> Well, I think that if you don't want those overwhelmed GUI's then ctwm is
> your choice. It's just an extension to twm with better looks. (You can
make
> it look nicely 3d)
> The bad thing in it is that there is only manpage available,  but the good
> thing is that the man page is pretty complete. I printed manpages for ctwm
> to paper when I started to config it and used the default .ctwmrc file as
a
> base. (I think the default file is at
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ctwm/system.ctwmrc)
>
> >
> > so far i have tried windowmaker, fvwm2, fvwm95, kde.
> >
> > i am looking for something simple, w/SUPPORT AND
> > DOCUMENTATION, fvwm is ok
> > but learning that config file is like learning another hi
> > level computer
> > language while kde is just plain too much gui for me.
>
> Another nice thing to try is xfce, thou there isn't any config files you
> could modify. You do everything in GUI, but that doesn't matter, as there
> isn't so much to change. Xfce has a help button, that will open an HTML
page
> in netscape, so at least there is some additional info.
>
> >
> > there also has to be intro documentation other than man pages.
> >
> > any recommendations appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
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