From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 19:18:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (imgate1.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91DD37B40E for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sephiroth (unknown [63.112.157.51]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AC2F23F61; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:37:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:22:08 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch To: mstark1@cfl.rr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best X Windows Manager for Newbies Message-Id: <20010917222208.054b4f37.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <200109180156.f8I1uUQ18836@smtp-server3.tampabay.rr.com> References: <200109180156.f8I1uUQ18836@smtp-server3.tampabay.rr.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, Mike, both KDE (especially v2.2) and GNOME/Enlightenment are pigs. Enlightenment's a pig by itself, but it's a very pretty pig. You just might be able to make a silk purse from E's ear. But I digress. I find that IceWM looks quite a bit like the Windows interface: taskbar on bottom, button triggering main menu in bottom left corner, etc. It also runs like a bat out of Hell, and doesn't hog much memory or CPU. If you want to check it out, look at [ http://www.icewm.org/ ]. Since I use it most of the time, I can answer questions related to installation and/or configuration. Also, you might consider running Window Maker (website at [ http://www.windowmaker.org ]). It's interface is based on NeXTStep/Mac, and is almost as fast as IceWM. However, you might find IceWM easier to get used to at first. Let me know if you have any other questions. ****** Matthew Graybosch [matthew@starbreaker.net] http://www.starbreaker.net :: where dreams and reality collide The SNAFU Principle: "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message