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Date:      Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:40:32 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Keith Seyffarth <weif@weif.net>
To:        Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)
Message-ID:  <20090322154032.C8041A18B0@maxine.cjones.org>
In-Reply-To: <ab7b49bc0903200438v1881d657m963378f955704593@mail.gmail.com> (message from Neal Hogan on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:38:51 -0500)
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> Try a smaller one, like evilwm. It's (pretty much) all command line. For
> example, you would open up a term and launch firefox from there (# firefox).
> Once you get the hang of its keybindings, which are vi-like, it's fun and
> easy. It's also compatible with aterm, which will give you transparent
> terminals (if that's something that interests you).
> 
> Also, I highly recommend that you check out http://xwinman.org. I found it
> to be fun and informative to peruse the list of wm's there.

Thanks for the link. http://xwinman.org is pretty cool. I'm currently
playing with fluxbox, and that seems to be working pretty well.



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