From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 19:27:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C5A337B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 70665 invoked by uid 100); 28 Oct 2000 02:27:38 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14842.14746.826707.524007@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:27:38 -0500 (CDT) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Satisfied w/ your desktop? In-Reply-To: <20001027185346.K28123@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <63353699@toto.iv> <14842.11866.726422.426239@guru.mired.org> <20001027185346.K28123@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.