Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 23:27:29 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Joel Adamson <trashbird1240@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Window Manager Recommendations Message-ID: <20060910032729.GA5048@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20060909024946.92342.qmail@web50403.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060909024946.92342.qmail@web50403.mail.yahoo.com>
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in message <20060909024946.92342.qmail@web50403.mail.yahoo.com>, wrote Joel Adamson thusly... > > I am switching over my desktop system to FreeBSD ... want to > choose a nice window manager. One of the more annoying things I > want to get away from in Microsoft Windows is focus-shifting: I'll > be typing along in one place, then a webpage will finish loading, > the window focus shifts, I keep typing and execute a bunch of > commands in the new window ... > In general I'd prefer a window manager that avoids these sorts of > things (i.e., only does what I ask it to). In FVWM (under /usr/ports/x11-wm/fvwm2-devel), you can set the window raising & moving, focus changing, & pointer moving poiclies to achieve what you want. You can even set it per window (based on its resource or title). You should install fvwm-themes too (in /usr/ports/x11-themes/fvwm-themes) if you don't want to directly edit the configuration files. - Parv --
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