Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 19:17:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com>, "freebsd.questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86; Where to from here? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951219191140.11922C-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951219015857.648A-100000@hub.org>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 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... netscape V1.12 > 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 :) knews is not bad....the presentation on threading is too horizontal, the box that represents each article is too wide. so you can only see 4-5 articles across the width of the screen ;( Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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