From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 27 18:32:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darwin.lastamericanempire.com (dsl081-101-239.den1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.101.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F3237B416 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by darwin.lastamericanempire.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 449E51D263; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:32:34 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:32:34 -0600 From: Zach Thompson To: Maicon Stihler Cc: question freebsd Subject: Re: the best window manager Message-ID: <20020427193234.A6389@darwin.lastamericanempire.com> Mail-Followup-To: Zach Thompson , Maicon Stihler , question freebsd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Maicon Stihler wrote: > > I was wondering what wm should I install on my FBSD box. I need > something that is easy to configure and that is customizable, fast > and with a clean look. I like the Icewm, but I dont know any tool > to configure the menus and the look and feel of it. Does anybode > have an opinion about it? note. I dont like kde :) Blackbox, AfterStep, and Window Maker are all customizable, fast, and small (enough) in my opinion. Though Window Maker isn't the smallest of the three , its ease of configuration and flexibility are a good trade off. There are some nice config utilities (x11-wm/wmakerconf, x11-wm/wmthemeinstall) and dock apps in ports. Though I'm not a huge dock-type person, I do like certain things just "there", e.g. time, temp, and a menu ;-) I used Ice for a while but just couldn't reconcile myself with the Windowsy bar-across-the-bottom look. Install a few and see what looks "clean" to you. Have fun, Zach Thompson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message