From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 16:19:13 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA18093 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:19:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18081 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 16:19:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA11962; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 19:17:51 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 19:17:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: Barry Masterson , "freebsd.questions" Subject: Re: XFree86; Where to from here? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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