Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 00:25:53 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, stephane@cybersurf.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Prefered X Window Manager? Message-ID: <199711010525.AAA09128@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19971101154510.10913@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 1, 97 03:45:10 pm"
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Greg Lehey said: > > Yes, there are plenty of interesting wms, and I thought a lot before > choosing it. A good alternative would be something like fvwm95, but I > decided that if I was going to plunge newbies into FreeBSD, I didn't > want to make it look like Windoze 95%. The main reason for the > chapter was to give enough perspective to make it interesting for > people to install X and do something halfway interesting with it. > *Then*, if they have any curiosity, they'll go and do their own thing > (and probably think me strange for the defaults I suggested :-) > I agree -- the WM is relatively easy to change for a beginner (once someone has created a work environment, the window manager becomes more embedded on ones system.) I think that in your book, directing someone to something that *works* is the best thing. It is probably a very good strategy to distinguish FBSD from W95. As I know that you know one of the distinguishing things about X is that you can really change the look and feel significantly. X is hyper-flexible. All of the Free U**X systems are like a vast stack of Christmas presents to open. Too many toys, and eventually one settles on a few of the toys that one likes!!! There aren't very many really bad choices :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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