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From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>,
	"Matthew Graybosch" <matthew@starbreaker.net>
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Subject: RE: Best X Windows Manager for Newbies
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:15:56 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gerald T.
> Freymann
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:04 PM
> To: Matthew Graybosch
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Best X Windows Manager for Newbies
>
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
>
> > Not that stupid a question on your part, Gerry. A newbie might
> > not feel confident enough or know enough to ask, and I don't mind
> > answering.
>
>  Ok, but I was really after the command to bring up Xfree with just a
> windows manager and no desktop.... ?

	Hmm... remove or rename your .xinitrc file.  That will bring up the
absolute, bone stock, default window manager, twm.

	If you're wanting something that bare looking but with some added
functionality... why not try OLVWM?  It's quite stripped down, but does
allow for multiple desktops (which I'm an extreme fan of).  I even run OLVWM
on my laptop (KDE and Gnome basically bring it to a crawl).

--- Andy


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