From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 03:59:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B457D16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:59:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0A543D2F for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:59:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E0B97855FF; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:29:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:29:35 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Chris Hill Message-ID: <20050224035935.GI36248@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200502231419.54629.m.hauber@mchsi.com> <1505159320.20050223203426@wanadoo.fr> <20050223222900.X5778@frambozen.monochrome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lNUIWTPMMv70yN+D" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050223222900.X5778@frambozen.monochrome.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Window managers (was: Different OS's? Marketshare) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:59:39 -0000 --lNUIWTPMMv70yN+D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 23 February 2005 at 22:51:26 -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> [...] I keep wondering if [...] I should just continue with FreeBSD >> and install X on the machine (and KDE, probably, since it seems to be >> popular, although I welcome suggestions). >> >> Which window manager is the closest to classic UNIX window managers >> (as opposed to wannabe Windows products)? > > It's not clear what you mean by "classic UNIX window managers" - maybe > CDE or Motif? Possibly. It could also be something primitive like twm, of course. That's available in the Ports Collection for people who want the bad old days back. > In any case I've never used them and can't answer that specific > question. I'd suggest fvwm2. > As for the former... I installed KDE on my 4.10 machine a while ago > just to have a look-see, and it seemed *very* Windows-y to > me. "Start" menu, integrated file/web browser, etc. I don't care for > it, and didn't bother reinstalling it after going to 5.3. If you > don't want a "wannabe Windows product", I think you might not like > KDE. I think I could agree with that. > Before and after KDE, I've been using fvwm2 - it's a relatively > plain but very configurable window manager, though I suppose you > could make it as fancy as you wanted. Heh. I moved to fvwm2 from mwm (Motif window manager), and there wasn't too much difference there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --lNUIWTPMMv70yN+D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCHVEnIubykFB6QiMRAqXlAJ4rZ3/wUMpMMZNrLs2eV2R4W8xUfACgi+Cv 62C/L0+QPhrWUptRtgDMxW8= =mjKA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lNUIWTPMMv70yN+D--