From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 04:13:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA08865 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 04:13:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag1p26.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA08860 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 04:13:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA28839; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:12:23 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:12:23 +1100 From: Jim Mock To: Greg Black Cc: Brett Taylor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WindowMaker Message-ID: <19990209231222.A28805@corp.au.triax.com> Reply-To: jim@corp.au.triax.com References: <19990209112130.17119.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990209112130.17119.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 at 21:21:29 +1000, Greg Black wrote: [snip..] > > Window Maker is not flawed in getting between desktops. > > If my customers tell me that it's flawed, then it is flawed. > End of discussion. > > > There is however no pager which may be what you're used to. > > Coming from AfterStep I was used to that and initially disliked > > the fact that Window Maker didn't have one as well. I've since > > found using a pager to be awkward. > > That's obviously personal preference. I'm used to using both > keys and mice for that (my preferred window manager is fvwm2 > which is good that way but is unfortunately broken under > FreeBSD-2.2.8) -- but my customers, who are the people I have to > please when I set up systems, want a pager. > [more snipped..] > For reasons that aren't important here, they want to use the > mouse rather than compound keyboard tricks. That's their > choice, but it all adds up to windowmaker not being a suitable > tool. I was just curious to see if it had perhaps adopted a > pager for this kind of user, because the rest of the program is > really very nice and would have been a good choice. I'm not > about to go badmouthing it because it doesn't do what these > people need, I was just curious about its current direction. > I don't know of anything planned in the development itself, but there's a dockapp pager (why not, everything else exists as a dockapp, even tetris =)) that you might find useful. You can get it from http://www.linuxbox.com/~bac/ I haven't tried compiling it, but I will in the morning, and if I can get it working, I'll submit a port of it. -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | The FreeBSD' zine : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsdzine.org/ : : FreeBSD: The Power To Serve | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message