From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 19:28:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (chmls05.mediaone.net [24.147.1.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C37637B40D for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:28:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sickness (h0000c0f0bdd0.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.160.109]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8I2SDr22715 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:28:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "David Loszewski" To: Subject: RE: Best X Windows Manager for Newbies Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:27:32 -0400 Message-ID: <000a01c13fe9$7c029b40$3000a8c0@sickness> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20010917222208.054b4f37.matthew@starbreaker.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal 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 How much memory would it have to take up for it to be considered a pig? KDE I agree is pretty bad but Enlightenment alone without GNOME works pretty well. Dave -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Matthew Graybosch Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:22 PM To: mstark1@cfl.rr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best X Windows Manager for Newbies 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message