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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:05:54 -0600
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Open_Source
Message-ID:  <20090605230554.GD88544@kokopelli.hydra>
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On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:20:24PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >Slight tangent, and you may have mentioned it before: What window manager
> >do you use?
>=20
> fvwm2, BUT not because i like it's tools and widgets, but because all of=
=20
> them can be easily turned off :)
>=20
> My configuration strips everything possible including window titles and=
=20
> borders, window moving and resizing are done with mouse+keyboard=20
> combinations, menu shows on keypress and i use it's "virtual desktop"=20
> function to switch between 24 of them using ALT-F* and CTRL-F*. ALT-X=20
> start xterm full screen so xterm "window" looks like text console, with=
=20
> the exception that i can run X program directly.
>=20
> I can post my config if you wish, it's <1700 bytes.

No need.  It sounds like my setup is even more minimal, and I'm happy
with it.  I was just curious.


>=20
> >>Unfortunately there are no well done WWW browsers for unix in the world.
> >>links -g is an exceptions, but in the same time it's quite limited.
> >>But have best fonts :)
> >
> >The links browser's interface is crap, as is that of every other text
>=20
> why?

That was explained in the stuff you cut out.


>=20
> >console based browser I've ever encountered.  Moving around within a
>=20
> moving works well.

It works in a slow, tedious fashion, without much fine-grained control.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Jon Postel, RFC 761: "[B]e conservative in what you do, be liberal
in what you accept from others."

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