Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:29:55 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Michael Carlson <carlson39@llnl.gov> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, ray@redshift.com Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <17134.55971.274966.717525@bhuda.mired.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD desktop? In-Reply-To: <1122924209.19849.18.camel@wushu.llnl.gov> References: <3.0.1.32.20050801043607.00a5aeb0@pop.redshift.com> <1122924209.19849.18.camel@wushu.llnl.gov> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" XEmacs Lucid Bcc: mwm-local@localhost X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org 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\ --text follows this line-- In <1122924209.19849.18.camel@wushu.llnl.gov>, Michael Carlson <carlson39@llnl.gov> typed: > But if you dont want to wait a couple of days, XFCE is probably the > lightest Window Manager. Not a chance. It uses gtk, which is bigger than lwm (/usr/ports/x11-wm/lwm) all by itself. And lwm isn't the lightest WM around - it's just the one I'm familiar with. The catch with the real lightweight window managers is that you configure them with cc. But if small and fast is what you want, they're the ticket. If you've been using Windows, you might prefer qvwm (/usr/ports/x11-wm/qvwm), which is a Windows 95/98/NT like window manager. I don't see one that emulates XP, and a quick google only turns up XPde, which appears to be a dead. If you think window management is to important to be left to such a low-bandwidth device as a mouse(*), then you might try ratpoison (/usr/ports/x11-wm/ratpoison). It's not for everyone, but it *really* confuses Mac and Windows users. Personally, I prefer plpwm (an example manager in /usr/ports/x11-wm/plwm), but I wrote it. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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