From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 24 08:43:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24713 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.auracom.net (root@mail1.auracom.net [165.154.140.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24630 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:42:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arthur@col.auracom.com) Received: from outpost.col.auracom.com (ts2-5.tru.auracom.com [165.154.114.69]) by mail1.auracom.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA21389; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:45:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:46:41 -0300 (ADT) From: arthur To: Tim Gerchmez cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fave Window Manager... found it. In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980623195124.008076a0@mx.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > I'm not familiar with twm, I don't even know if I tried it or not. There > are a lot of window managers out there... > ... twm is the default. > > One problem with X in general I've found is locating pixmaps/icons for all > your apps and getting all the paths straight... I have pixmaps stored all > over my hard drive in various locations. Something needs to be done about > this in a future release of X... some kind of central pixmap/icon > repository or something - it could get out of hand with having 40 or 50 > different directories containing pixmaps and other icons scattered all over > the place. > .. I don't think the location of pixmaps and such are a problem of X, but (trying to not sound like a jerk) why don't you just store all your pixmaps in the same dir, that way you can point to them from .fvwm2rc and you shouldn't have to worry about them anymore. .. I like fvwm2 also, I've tried qvwm, but it's a bit flakey. I'm not sure what you mean by the baker, but if you're looking to setup a type of wallpaper effect I find that xloadimage works fine for me. I'd post how I use it here, but I don't want to spread my "bad habits" around all over the net ;) .... ltr PS. have you tried Pine as a mail program, I find it can be quite conifgurable to your own personal needs. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - arthur@col.auracom.com In a world without fences, is there a need for gates --end-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message