From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 27 19: 6:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from altair.mukappabeta.net (altair.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B140B37B417 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:06:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from altair.mukappabeta.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by altair.mukappabeta.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ABD96B2 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 04:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 04:06:51 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best window manager Message-Id: <20020428040651.38899ea0.mkb@mukappabeta.de> In-Reply-To: <20020427193234.A6389@darwin.lastamericanempire.com> References: <20020427193234.A6389@darwin.lastamericanempire.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Zach Thompson >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've been a twm/fvwm fart for many years but recently switched to using windowmaker; it's true, you don't have to edit a single blahwmrc by hand. The config tool that windowmaker comes with (if you start wmaker, double-click on the lowest icon in the dock or how it's called will make it pop-up) is excellent. After a couple minutes, you have it configured exactly the way you want. Also, it's got about just the right features and you can also obviously customize the shipped "themes" or "styles" through the utility but since they're all ugly (far too dark and not very ergonomic) you'd be better off copying one and editing it by hand (you can do it via the config tool, too, but I think it's rather cumbersome.) What I like most about it, of course, is that it never crashed on me and that it's halfway portable. What I don't quite like is that it doesn't work very well on PseudoColor (8-bit) or less displays but I don't use it on those anyways. --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message