From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 7 19:10:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f219.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0569237BF7F for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:10:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomhines2@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 56703 invoked by uid 0); 8 Jun 2000 02:10:37 -0000 Message-ID: <20000608021037.56701.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 206.173.59.83 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 07 Jun 2000 19:10:37 PDT X-Originating-IP: [206.173.59.83] From: "Tom Hines" To: goldtech@worldpost.com, djohnson@acuson.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windowmaker Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 22:10:37 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Overall, I still like WindowMaker the best of all window managers. > >i'll keep at it then, but i was a little freaked by the lack of amazon.com >like docs. for it. all the unix people are saying it's the best bet. I don't like it, and I can't figure out what everybody else likes about it. I don't like the clip and the huge icons WM puts on the bottom of the screen when you minimize an application. Sounds like you want something easily configured. Try XFce (http://www.xfce.org). Everything's configured with the mouse. When you're more comfortable with config files, try Blackbox (http://Blackbox.alug.org) Tom ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message