From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 7 20:37:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bga.com (mail5.realtime.net [205.238.128.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BE4037B66D for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:37:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from outlawtx@bga.com) Received: from john ([204.181.162.73]) by bga.com ; Wed, 07 Jun 2000 22:37:19 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000607224345.01a6c100@bga.com> X-Sender: outlawtx@bga.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 22:43:45 -0500 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: outlawtx@bga.com Subject: Re: windowmaker In-Reply-To: <20000608021037.56701.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm using Xfce and really do like it. It's fast on a slow machine and a no-brainer to add new apps to the menu. Don At 10:10 PM 6/7/2000 EDT, you wrote: >> > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message