Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:27:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Satisfied w/ your desktop? Message-ID: <14842.14746.826707.524007@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20001027185346.K28123@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <63353699@toto.iv> <14842.11866.726422.426239@guru.mired.org> <20001027185346.K28123@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein writes:
> Hrm, any chance you can clean up and post a url describing a howto
> and some rc files for making a setup like yours? I know it sounds
> lame, but the reason I stick with things like WindowMaker and KDE
> is that I don't have time to mess with the config files so I'm
> either stuck using a GUI tool to config an over-GUI'd window manager
> or I wind up with twm which isn't much fun at all. :)
You really should send stuff to -questions; there may be other people
as crazyXXXXXminimalist as you and I who'd be interested in the
results.
lwm and 9menu are in the ports tree (both in x11-wm). The lwm config
is (from ~/.Xresources):
# lwm
lwm.button1: button1
lwm.button2: button2
The commands button1 and button2 are shell scripts that live in
~/bin. If you don't config lwm, button 1 (left) is a nop, and button 2
(middle) runs xterm. Once you've installed 9menu, the scripts are
trivial; mostly it's a matter of getting the shell quoting
right. Here's one:
#!/bin/sh
9menu -warp -popup -label Apps \
"mail:gnuclient -batch -f vm" \
'xterm:xterm -ls' \
jpilot \
'gkrellm:gkrellm -wm' \
maker \
abiword \
xemacs \
vncviewer \
xclipboard
About the only thing to add is that there are a lot of "minimalist"
wm's available: I looked at wm2, wmg, and wmx, and there are now new
ones that claim to be "small" or "simple."
If that's not enough, let me know and I'll think about doing a longer
writeup.
<mike
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