From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 23 12: 0:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F0637B7C5 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@northwestern.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA20671 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:00:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (coconut-32-028052.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.52]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma020665; Sun, 23 Jul 00 14:00:21 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA59740 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:10:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:10:55 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: blackbox, sawfish, and other wm's Message-ID: <20000723121055.A59714@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000723171725.A11118@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000723171725.A11118@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:17:25PM +0100 X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 05:17:25PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > I've been running windowmaker for several months, and ijust switched to > blackbox 0.60.x. Has anyone tried sawfish? Just installed it the other day. It's come a long way since I stopped using it some time ago (a year?). It's much more stripped down than other window managers; it's just a window manager, not a "desktop enviroment." On that note I think it's generally used in conjunction with Gnome. And if you know lisp that's a big plus when it comes to customizing. But it's bare appearance is attractive to me. I use it without Gnome, which is too muddled for me. Try running sawfish alongside gkrellm and you've got pretty much everything. > How does it compare to enlightenment? I never liked enlightenment. It was much too slow, even on a fast computer. -- David Kanter djkanter@northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message