Date: 01 Mar 2002 15:31:57 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GUI question. Message-ID: <9b8z9brhjm.z9b@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <15487.45514.154511.764947@guru.mired.org> References: <200203010532.AAA17582@alpha.vaxxine.com> <3C7FB044.9A64DABC@mindspring.com> <15487.45514.154511.764947@guru.mired.org>
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"Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015433546.4c7b1e@mired.org> writes: > You might want to consider either ratpoison, or the plpwm example > bundled into plwm, both of which are *much* saner solutions for > stacking and moving xterms than anything else I've seen. > > Having to actually touch the rodent just to activate a different > xterm? What a waste! Good old fvwm2 gives pretty good control of windows (and their containers, pages, and their containers, desktops) with keys. Cycle up, down, iconize, goto a particular ones (favorites, though not dynamically, by name), other things I've not tried. I keep most windows stacked in the upper left corner (with 2 pixel space for easy access of background mouse menus), most filling screen except one inch right border which has (from top down) round clock, day/date/time, xload, xosview (CPU,mem,swap,paging), button bar (1/4" x 1" buttons stacking down which may be used to de/iconize or raise+fucus windows), and at bottom, a two-desktop, four-page pager (one desktop with red background to warn of the root xterms there). The config file allows key/menu/button/etc. definitions And best of all: no icons anywhere. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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