From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 24 03:14:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA23673 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 03:14:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from info1.info.tampere.fi (lmkjuksi@info1.info.tampere.fi [212.63.6.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA23449 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 03:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lmkjuksi@info1.info.tampere.fi) Received: (from lmkjuksi@localhost) by info1.info.tampere.fi (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA26852; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:16:14 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980623195124.008076a0@mx.serv.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:01:37 +0300 (EEST) From: Jukka Simila To: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Re: Fave Window Manager... found it. Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 24-Jun-98 Tim Gerchmez wrote: >Finally settled on a favorite Window manager, one that's neither too >complicated nor too feature-free for this newbie -- it happens to be fvwm2 >(no laughing, now, this is fvwm2, not plain old fvwm). I spent a good part >of the day today configuring it the way I like (getting colors of different >things to all look good together is tough if you're not a graphic designer >or used to designing GUIs). Looks pretty nice, runs what I want it to run, >can be easily configured to run anything else, and the built in modules are >nice (except that the 'backer' module seems broken - it doesn't work the >way it's stated in the docs, and won't change desktop background colors, >nor set a pixmap for a background. Any info on this from anyone in the know? > >BTW, for those who want a REALLY simple but basically featureless window >manager, ctwm might be the choice for you... might be good for a REALLY raw >newbie. It's so simple and easy to use it's disgusting, but you can't do >anything much with it. and.. On 24-Jun-98 Tim Gerchmez wrote: >"on the face"... and even there, they are a lot of similarities. The thing >I like about fvwm2 is that you don't need to mess much with icons (see >below) and can set up pop-up menus instead (extremely easy to configure in >.fvwm2rc), which I greatly prefer to keeping track of icons for everything. Well I just wanted to say that I used fvwm2 2 weeks and didn't really solve it out.. just configured colors & a little bit something else. But now I'm using ctwm, and yes, it is simple to use, but I think U really can do alot with it. I don't have to look any icons around, I have disabled them from extremely-easy-to-configure-file .ctwmrc and I have a pop-up menu for my third mousebutton. also, when i 'used' fvwm2 I didn't notice option available in ctwm: f.movepack or f.movepush, so windows are very easy to arrange nicely, when they don't overlap unless u really want so. and backgrounds are working perfectly. :). BTW, as u can see, I use Xfmail, but I would like to know if u tested it: does it support filters? - I haven't been able to find anything about them within xfmail. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Jukka Simila Date: 24-Jun-98 Time: 13:01:37 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message