From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 23:02:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA26830 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 23:02:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA26819 Mon, 18 Dec 1995 23:02:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA00707; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 02:01:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 02:00:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Barry Masterson , "freebsd.questions" Subject: Re: XFree86; Where to from here? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Barry Masterson wrote: > > > I've just installed XFree86 3.1.2. twm is the default setup. > > Can anyone here offer suggestions for other packages that may > > be of interest on a single user setup? > > try fvwm in place of twm. much nicer. > > netscape. xv. knews or netscape or some other X news reader. > Which netscape are you running? I've tried 2.0b3, and for some reason, I get nothing on the screen, altho the process remains running. v112 from ftp2.netscape.com seems to work fine... any recommendations on an X news reader? I've been sticking pretty much to text one in an xterm (trn) and wonder if I'm missing anything :) Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc