Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 18:50:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: jroberts@ashland.edu (Jeff Roberts) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off Topic: X desktop manager for FBSD?u Message-ID: <199705100050.SAA10113@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.3.95.970506103243.28A-100000@warp4> from "Jeff Roberts" at May 6, 97 10:43:23 am
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> However, I can't
> seem to do some of the things I used to be able to do in SCO (Motif?),
> such as put objects on the desktop, etc.
SCO includes the IXI X.desktop with their Open DeathTrap product, maybe
you're thinking of that.
> I also haven't found where to
> set fvwm as my default window manager (twm is what always comes up), or
> why xvidtune adjustments are never saved (do I have to put them in a
> file manually?). With fvwm and tkdesk, I can get a (barely) acceptable
> desktop. Is there another widget or tool that I need to be able to make
> folders/icons on the desktop? What do *you* do?
Personally, I put my computer keyboard, mouse, and monitor on the
desktop, and use ctwm on my computer. Applications are started from a
popup menu just the way any thinking computer user (i.e. UNIX guru)
would expect them to be. Most applications are 'launched' by typing
their name in an xterm. ;^)
> If you don't think other list members would benefit, please just reply to
> me personally.
I've never bought into this idiotic 'desktop metaphor' crap because
my work isn't done on a desktop, its done on a computer. In emacs.
The way Real Programmers(tm) do it.
My major interest outside of computing is sailing, so perhaps I should
grab fvwm and figure out how to configure it for a 'cockpit metaphor:'
grind this winch to haul in the e-mail, push the tiller back and forth
to switch work spaces, etc. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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