Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 14:48:52 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A nice looking WM to replace a DE Message-ID: <25032497-5C8C-472B-AF9E-14659FFBDFA2@riseup.net> In-Reply-To: <20200816054351.GA26926@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20200816054351.GA26926@admin.sibptus.ru>
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Hi, I strongly recommend against Enlightenment, since it suffers from all the pi= tfalls all desktop environments suffer from and it=E2=80=99s not maintained b= y such a huge group of maintainers, as other desktop environments are. Btw. s= ince you like to get a modern look, you unlikely like the decades old clumsy= themes available for Enlightenment. If you want to avoid tiling window managers, but want to get something reall= y small, take a look at JWM, it comes close to Openbox and at least on Linux= it is as rock-solid as Openbox is. However, when I migrated away from Xfce years ago on Linux, I tested a lot o= f alternatives and ended with JWM and Openbox. After a while openbox became t= he only WM for me. You could =E2=80=9Cdd=E2=80=9D NomadBSD to an USB stick, to test the look an= d feel of openbox running on FreeBSD, https://nomadbsd.org/screenshots/nomad= bsd-1.3-ss1.png . It=E2=80=99s a live FreeBSD, that by default does use open= box. Unfortunately https://nomadbsd.org/ downloads can=E2=80=99t be checked again= st a signed checksum, but this shouldn=E2=80=99t matter for testing openbox o= n FreeBSD, if you anyway will install a window manager on you machine. Depending on the panel/s etc. you chose, you get the menu and features you w= ant to get for Xfce, without gvfs and other Gnome pitfalls. Regards, Ralf=
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