From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 9 14:19:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cantvc.canterbury.ac.nz (cantvm.canterbury.ac.nz [132.181.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA3A37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbm49@rbm49.tacacs.canterbury.ac.nz) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.it.canterbury.ac.nz by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.0-025 #45723) id <01K5REGELGFK9N83U5@it.canterbury.ac.nz> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:19:13 +1200 (NEW ZEALAND STANDARD TIME) Received: from rbm49.tacacs.canterbury.ac.nz (rbm49.tacacs.canterbury.ac.nz [172.31.164.87]) by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.0-025 #45723) with ESMTP id <01K5REGDVZ3C9N7OVI@it.canterbury.ac.nz> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:19:13 +1200 (NEW ZEALAND STANDARD TIME) Received: from rbm49 by rbm49.tacacs.canterbury.ac.nz with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15JiQp-0004iY-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:19:03 +1200 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:19:03 +1200 From: Richard B Mahoney Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 Desktop Query In-reply-to: <"from doug"@polands.org> To: Subscribers to FreeBSD-Questions Reply-To: Richard B Mahoney Mail-Followup-To: Subscribers to FreeBSD-Questions Message-id: <20010710091902.B11192@it.canterbury.ac.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Danny, On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:50:41PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:27:37PM -0500, Danny K Ho wrote: > > - I am running FreebSD 4.3 on a old Pentium Pro with 32 MB of RAM > > - Which X Windows Manager should I install > I've been quite happy with WindowMaker (http://www.windowmaker.org) > on my modest machines. For a window manager which places and emphasis on minimalism and aesthetics, without compromising basic functionality, for me there is only one choice: blackbox-0.61.1 -- for the manager itself bbkeys-0.3.6 -- for keyboard shortcuts if you want them Worth consulting is: http://bb.themes.org/ But at the end of the day, each to his/her own. :-) Many regards, Richard Mahoney -- +----------------------- Richard Mahoney -----------------------+ | 78 Jeffreys Rd +64-3-351-5831 | | Christchurch New Zealand | +-------------- mailto:rbm49@it.canterbury.ac.nz ---------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message