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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:24:58 -0500
From:      Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GUI Suggested?
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikECugKYAg%2Bt%2BQv%2BSGBgdfSg4kR1eAQO1Yffq8U@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100923152023.GA14903@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden
<sterling@camdensoftware.com> wrote:
> Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010:
>> Hello all.
>>
>> In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under
>> terminal/shell mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved
>> that way I have never tried any graphical interface.
>>
>> I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience
>> on what path to follow? KDE? any other?
>>
>> I would like to test what you suggest is the best for you and if
>> possible that it is not TOO complicated to setup. The idea is to use
>> it as my desktop plattfor (documents, browser, email, etc)
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Jorge Biquez
>>
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>
> After trying a few different WMs, I settled on xmonad. =A0It's minimalist
> -- meaning it stays out of your way. =A0It's also highly configurable, in
> Haskell. =A0It's lightweight and fast. =A0It's a developer's WM.
>

If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and
vim-like (among other things ;-).



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