From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 12 13:35:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28306 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 13:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28169 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 13:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA04636; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:35:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA09844; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:35:02 -0500 (CDT) To: "Martin Von_Schantz" Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows managers References: <19980412181534.15209.qmail@hotmail.com> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 12 Apr 1998 15:35:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Martin Von_Schantz"'s message of "Sun, 12 Apr 1998 11:15:34 PDT" Message-ID: <87n2dqbwy1.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Martin Von_Schantz" writes: > Hello, I have been recommended the KDE desktop environment by some > 'Linux users' :) > it doesn't seem that BSD friendly unfourtunately so I wondered > if anyone had a better windows manager to recommend. As others have said, check out the KDE port (see http://freebsd.org/ports/ for more info). However, as far as window managers go, I'd recommend icewm highly (and I've used them all). It's extremely fast, extremely small, has ways to do everything from the keyboard, looks very nice (and look is highly configurable), plus it has a cute little BSD button ;-). -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message