Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:09:09 +0100 From: Gustaf Sjoberg <gs@vacfu.org> To: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> Cc: deepbsd@earthlink.net, jud@myrealbox.com, ryans@gamersimpact.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Window/File Manager Message-ID: <20021112090909.69b89d67.gs@vacfu.org> In-Reply-To: <3131.172.16.1.33.1037069612.squirrel@samaria.polands.org> References: <1036430278.61de1060jud@myrealbox.com> <20021111174951.B20887@sylvester.dsj.net> <3131.172.16.1.33.1037069612.squirrel@samaria.polands.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, pwm runs like a charm on my toshiba tecra 750CDT and is the original tabbed windowmanager (propaganda) ;-) qoute from http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/: "PWM is a rather lightweight window manager for X11. It has the unique feature that multiple client windows can be attached to the same frame. This feature helps keeping windows, especially the numerous xterms, organized. A look at the screenshots below might clarify the idea. Being a lightweight window manager with emphasis on usability, PWM does not have all the features that one might expect from a window manager. Those features are simply unnecessary. PWM does not provide pixmapped themes or other bloated eye candies but has a clean and simple look inspired by BeOS and Motif. There are no icons and frames cannot be iconified, only "shaded". Only One True (pointer) focus mode is supported: sloppy. PWM does not even have titlebar buttons and may not be the easiest window manager to get into, most Good Things are not. PWM does have workspaces, menus and Window Maker dockapp support. It has pretty good keyboard support and almost all the functionality is configurable." my own screenshots of pwm can be found at www.vacfu.org/?view=pwm as previously stated, the shell is the most powerful FM. if you still insist on running a FM on low resources it might be worth to giv XFCE a shot (www.xfce.org), it is a very slim desktop environment. good luck, Gustaf Sjoberg On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:53:32 -0600 (CST) "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> wrote: > >David S. Jackson said: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Date: 03 Nov 2002 21:55:37 -0600 >>> Subject: Window/File Manager >>> >>> I recently decided to bring my old Presario 1220 our of >>> retirement and make a small toy laptop to play around with. >>> Unfortunately it's only a 200mhz/64mb RAM system with a 2.1gb >>> harddrive. I would like to use X if possible but given the >>> hardware limitations I really can't have a bloated featureful WM >>> or FM and still have a usable laptop (after all if the GUI is >>> slow I might as well install 98SE). >>> >>> What are your favorite ultra-light WM's and/or FMs? I'm just >>> looking for something that does the job, looking nice would be >>> an added benefit but I doubt I'll have a high color depth to >>> play with anyway. >> >I use windowmaker. Quite light and fast. A linux aquaintence of >mine recently suggested waimea. It's even lighter and faster than >windowmaker and shares a heritage from NextSTEP. I've only played >with it for a few minutes, you might want to check it out. > >-- >Regards, >Doug > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Gustaf Sjoberg <gs@vacfu.org> <(" <) <(" )> <( ")> (> ")> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20021112090909.69b89d67.gs>