Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:43:52 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: outlawtx@bga.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which window manager? Message-ID: <37ED5E38.636723F2@3-cities.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990925164923.01394af0@bga.com> <3.0.6.32.19990925173601.013a7110@bga.com> <3.0.6.32.19990925180118.0139d230@bga.com>
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outlawtx@bga.com wrote: > > Hi Kent, > > I was wondering which window manager you use. I have been trying to run > fvwm2 and can't get it right. It comes up with a blank screen. > > Don Hi Don, That is one of my "round_to_its". I'm still using twm (?). When I was working, I used HP-Vu (?). The sysadmin set it up and I just always logged in to it. I didn't have to know how to set it up. Since this has to be done my way now, I am spending a lot more time to see what I want. I have been to a few places looking but so far I haven't wanted to get rid of what I'm using. Don't get me wrong. Some of the them looked really good (you can add blink and underscore here). My situation is such that if I want windows, I use Win 2000. Netscape and WordPerfect for Linux run just fine with what I am using. Someone has told me to try "gimp" and see what it does to my graphics. I did download Jessie from Sun. It is supposed to be an IDE development environment. I also have Code Forge but haven't installed it yet. Sooner of later, I will find something I am comforatble with and move some of my stuff off of NT. There were a couple of projects that I wanted to run on both os'es but I hit a couple of Fortran modules that were too old. The modern compilers wouldn't accept the old features. They had levels of entry points and the new compilers required you to provide all of the arguments on each entry point. There were litteral 100's of places where these things were used and not all of the variables were present in all locations. It became a project that I would do for pay but not for fun. BTW, I have setathome running in one of my x-windows and I can't tell any difference between running it there and the normal login screen. I just nice setiathome to where it is nice :) to my other sessions. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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