Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:57:48 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: leegold <goldtech@worldpost.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: win managers Message-ID: <394E6D2C.534F303@acuson.com> References: <000901bfd8e7$dd6768d0$1ae27ad1@beefstew>
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leegold wrote: > > can anyone recommend a simple and well documented (i need more than man > pages) win manager. > > so far i have tried windowmaker, fvwm2, fvwm95, kde. > > i am looking for something simple, w/SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION, fvwm is ok What?! Support AND documentation! You're asking a lot here :-) WindowMaker is easy. It does have good documentation, but it is out of date. However, updated docs are being written as we speak. Informal support is readily available. It is a different way of working from some other window managers, so it may take a bit of getting used to. You might try Enlightenment. It is easy, though somewhat baroque. It has decent docs on the window manager. Although editing the menu is akin to fvwm, it does detect a lot of your installed software, so you don't need to edit it much. A menu editor is in the works. Documentation is the big bugaboo of Open Source. Open Source developers loathe writing documentation, to the point that I actually saw a man page announce "this man page is no longer being maintained, see the info pages", and then the corresponding info page was a copy of the man page! David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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