Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:45:35 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers Message-ID: <6ey86eky5s.86e@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050903015658.GB99371@keyslapper.net> (Louis LeBlanc's message of "Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:56:58 -0400") References: <90056E03-651E-431A-9D87-5F89C5F6CCE7@cc.usu.edu> <20050903015658.GB99371@keyslapper.net>
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Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.net> 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.
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