Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 20:39:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Nate Puri <natepuri@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Satisfied w/ your desktop? Message-ID: <14842.11866.726422.426239@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <63353699@toto.iv>
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Nate Puri writes: > In light of using the highly integrated Windows > desktop or the Mac OS X desktop, what configurations > for FBSD do you use that are comparable? Comparable how? Features? Size? Usability? Style? Design? Coolness? > I'm trying a lot of different stuff now. XFce, KDE1, > KDE2, GNOME, Afterstep, WindowMaker, BlackBox and a > combination of apps that are better than 1.x. I've > tried them all. I'd just like to hear thoughts on what > people use who have used their configuration for a > long time now without switching. I consider all those window managers to be large, clunky and obnoxiously distracting. My physical desk does nothing but hold up the things I need to work on/with, and otherwise stays out of the way. That pretty much describes what I want from all my tools - let me do the job, use as little space (both memory and screen) as you can doing it, and don't distract me with geegaws. I use lwm, configured (with that marvelous Gnu Configuration Command gcc) to provide a windows with a "get out of my way" feature: a right click in the border lowers them. The left and middle mouse buttons in the root window each run a 9menu command to bring up a list of commonly used tools (slightly faster than typing into an xterm). These are both shell scripts whose name lwm reads from an X resource. The right mouse button in the root brings up a list of "iconified" applications (and they appear nowhere else: no dock, no icon window, no menubar, nada). Changing this requires reconfiguration with gcc. Given that I use black-on-white xterms & editor windows pretty extensively, and my WM has zero desktop presence, it shouldn't surprise you to know that I've been asked - more than once - why I have a black-and-white system. It should also now be obvious why people don't pay me to design GUIs. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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