Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:27:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Michael Wells <mwvw@adelphia.net>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze [integrate X] Message-ID: <20020726222107.T22790-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020727011504.GA83240@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > Peter> Will FreeBSD's core of developers ever leap into integrating X *and* a window manager (something similar to Windows)? I surely hope so. > If you mean pulling X into the FreeBSD CVS tree and deciding on a > single window manager, definitely not. Although if you call having an Maybe as a default, or just *having* a default window manager is not a bad idea. CVS-savvy and code-savvy FreeBSD users could easily over-ride. > XFree86-Server package, and over a dozen window manager packages, > selectable by sysinstall during the install process, integration, we > already have it, and have for years. > -- > Dan Nelson - dnelson@allantgroup.com The packages offered by the sysinstall process are usually behind by a few weeks. When I installed 4.3 from CDROMs, it wasn't clear how to install and/or upgrade over FTP. At the time (Feb 2002), XFree86 3.3.6 was the only GUI available and from sysinstall, the process of choosing a windows manager was confusing. Perhaps in the future we'll have a NoviceWM or BeginnerWM or the like. This would be similar to how UNIX ISPs offer a UNIX shell known as "lush" or learning unix shell -- the employees may jokingly call this loser-user-shell because it is a menu'ed way to explore a limited set of UNIX commands. Perhaps sysinstall will feature much better FAQ's and HOWTO documents detailing video drivers, X, and windows managers one day... -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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