From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Dec 26 14:24:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1101737B405 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from nidoqueen-49.dynamic.rpi.edu (HELO Rozinante.dynamic.rpi.edu) (128.113.138.138) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Dec 2001 22:24:36 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Marcia Barrett Nice To: leegold , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: not happy w/any window managers Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 17:29:49 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <3C31A9A9@operamail.com> In-Reply-To: <3C31A9A9@operamail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01122617294901.73557@Rozinante.dynamic.rpi.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Have you tried KDE2.x? I am running it and can resize windows as described. Not that I'm pushing my preferred wm or anything... Marci On Wednesday 26 December 2001 04:49 pm, leegold wrote not happy w/any window managers: | I have been try many wm's and have not found one | | that let's me resize windows like MS win. | ie. you position the point ANYwhere along a | window's edge and the hand turns into a "double arrow" | indicating you can reposition. If done at a corner you | can change size of both x and y too. | | Anybody know which one can do this? | | It has been frustrating, many wm's default to | an eye candy screen and have a skeevy/tricky feel | There's nothing I would like more than a gui that | would replace my win2k - I am trying. | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- So why, pray, sign anything as long as every word, letter, penstroke, paperspace is a perfect signature of its own? - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message