From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 3 14:44:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FF216A41F for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:44:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945D743D45 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 14:44:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A6BA3E0300A2; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:44:10 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j83Ejf5k068590 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j83EjZW7068589; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <90056E03-651E-431A-9D87-5F89C5F6CCE7@cc.usu.edu> <20050903015658.GB99371@keyslapper.net> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:45:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20050903015658.GB99371@keyslapper.net> (Louis LeBlanc's message of "Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:56:58 -0400") Message-ID: <6ey86eky5s.86e@mail.opusnet.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:44:14 -0000 Louis LeBlanc writes: > So, two things that are important: ease of configuration and > flexibility. You want those small tweaks to be painless, but you also > want the WM to be able to do what you want it to. So far, I've not > found anything I wanted that FVWM2 couldn't do. Documentation (man > pages) are well written enough that tweaks are pretty easy to manage > now too. Amen. Want to do something? Read "man fvwm", edit ".fvwm2". Done. I gave KDE a couple of good tries and while it's nice to have on the Gnoppix Live CDROM, for example, I don't want to climb it's learning curve to configure it to my own preferences in daily use. I keep the right 1.5" of my 4-page screen normally devoted to a column of gizmos that do everything I need to do. You can easily write gizmos (eg, Tk/Python) and hook them it into fvwm's button/display system, though fvwm has all the built-in gizmos I've needed except my online/offline button/indicator/GMT-display.