Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 08:48:02 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: stephane@cybersurf.net (Stephane Raimbault) Subject: Re: Prefered X Window Manager? Message-ID: <19971103084802.QF38080@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <000701bce570$9ed09960$0100a8c0@einstein.cybersurf.net>; from Stephane Raimbault on Oct 30, 1997 20:15:50 -0000 References: <000701bce570$9ed09960$0100a8c0@einstein.cybersurf.net>
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As Stephane Raimbault wrote: > So, I'm just wondering what Window Manager some of you use. I am currently > using twm which comes with XFree86. Just to make the list complete, and since nobody mentioned it before (i'm personally an fvwm-1 user myself): there's also olvwm, giving you the look&feel of a Sun workstation. Unfortunately, the port doesn't ship with reasonable menu configuration files, and a number of the interesting *tool stuff from Sun's OpenLook is also missing, but it integrates nice if you are aiming at people coming from a Sun and OpenLook background. (I plan to add some sample config files to the port some day, now that i've crafted them. Alas, the window manager dumps core if none of the files exists, and you try to open a menu.) As a matter of taste, i prefer the simplicistic OpenLook style much over the bloated and terribly colored CDE cr*p. (Please, don't start an endless thread about matters of taste. I know that almost everyone has a different opinion on this.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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