From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 1 15:28:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E773737B402 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AF1BD17 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29886 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:28:55 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g21NVxn02605; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:31:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GUI question. References: <200203010532.AAA17582@alpha.vaxxine.com> <3C7FB044.9A64DABC@mindspring.com> <15487.45514.154511.764947@guru.mired.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 01 Mar 2002 15:31:57 -0800 In-Reply-To: <15487.45514.154511.764947@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <9b8z9brhjm.z9b@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Mike Meyer" writes: > You might want to consider either ratpoison, or the plpwm example > bundled into plwm, both of which are *much* saner solutions for > stacking and moving xterms than anything else I've seen. > > Having to actually touch the rodent just to activate a different > xterm? What a waste! Good old fvwm2 gives pretty good control of windows (and their containers, pages, and their containers, desktops) with keys. Cycle up, down, iconize, goto a particular ones (favorites, though not dynamically, by name), other things I've not tried. I keep most windows stacked in the upper left corner (with 2 pixel space for easy access of background mouse menus), most filling screen except one inch right border which has (from top down) round clock, day/date/time, xload, xosview (CPU,mem,swap,paging), button bar (1/4" x 1" buttons stacking down which may be used to de/iconize or raise+fucus windows), and at bottom, a two-desktop, four-page pager (one desktop with red background to warn of the root xterms there). The config file allows key/menu/button/etc. definitions And best of all: no icons anywhere. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message