From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 09:32:36 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marseilles.france (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442B3106566B; Sat, 6 Aug 2011 09:32:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ashish@freebsd.org) Received: from marseilles.france (marseilles.france [IPv6:::1]) by marseilles.france (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0ECD260BD8; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 20:52:42 +0100 (WEST) From: ashish@FreeBSD.org (Ashish SHUKLA) To: Christian Barthel Organization: The FreeBSD Project References: <20110805191214.GA19848@kar.user-mode.org> X-Face: )vGQ9yK7Y$Flebu1C>(B\gYBm)[$zfKM+p&TT[[JWl6:]S>cc$%-z7-`46Zf0B*syL.C]oCq[upTG~zuS0.$"_%)|Q@$hA=9{3l{%u^h3jJ^Zl; t7 X-Uptime: 20:49:25 up 2:23, 1 user, load average: 0.40, 0.20, 0.12 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux/Linux 2.6.39-ARCH/x86_64 X-OpenPGP-Fingerprint: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 X-Attribution: =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3?= Organisation: The FreeBSD Project Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:52:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110805191214.GA19848@kar.user-mode.org> (Christian Barthel's message of "Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:12:14 +0200") Message-ID: <877h6riqk9.fsf@marseilles.france> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJ1BMVEWpqal/f39tbW1jY2Md HR2goKCenp6UlJROTk7////9/f35+fnT09ORJdieAAACVklEQVQ4jXXUP2vbQBQA8AvUTkgz5OzY Z0iGWhpS6BSrkECn0mvx0MEJ6AjtYrfoBCVDlD8naJYmNlRfwZq8+mkKlIZaGpJSYmP7Q/XkJDrJ Td8i/H68u3vHPaPufwLdf32AMA4A6GcAgvAamY1pOJiDIFqicTwLswDhfr3uxfFtkAY/GFHPMwzD 8zpnACmIOnE6js7rQb+v4NJrG9od0C+QgpHMy5jBewV+UDSMWiw1Y4fWfyV7+NGFzDsYa3pth9LJ Q4XvXxFHcJRvHOmygn5NAEabnDcQQguarnfoiwSCJ99jmKKcphsZONmWsDK9Ro7cvZOCtQdg8nje egLhc2LNlkLmsezzTFUUy5w18ocox/f0LaLgJy0zO75zk+9pp85GAj36xjqhdI0y3tq2m4dqqcWX zQWBTz8L1irvolXV4J+3q7eCDgVnttjNq6X8H+9KOZsuNk1uCzx8pSp+E9HImfJOTLdcGqo+YKnG EIovizkEn48V7BO+ch2DXcD4ENSpWiU+q8hjjbgTBZCXnZtyj0Ws4Q1Q0B2WXFtYZo65Bbyeeldw RS6qFueM80LlLA29YlVwGRYvFD+kwI/0O+A2PlpOP9GwslUVciHuYGechuBTp922YiDZCrghTknm XSyOM+D3aoRZlo0Jb42zY7DN4p2x4AeZ+QAYutx1sHwTHzMT5cMNduQ9yW3GczN4KZ86kb0c9O8T yXDeFqpl2fryPEAYGXIlezAPXYh2NgVr/gvdoHIuDwuPwOhcWE8f8mmICq41eATkn8x0kuRTIKcB wE9+/QUtiiAnYcaN7wAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative windowmanagers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:32:36 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Christian Barthel writes: > Hello,=20 > I read on slashdot that Linus Torvalds moved from Gnome 2.3x to Xfce. It > seems that he isn't thrilled by xfce, but it's far better than Gnome3.=20 > As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big > mistake. And there are also rumors that Gnome will be Linux only. Maybe, > we will never see Gnome3 under FreeBSD, but this is not a tragedy :) > I am not very interested in eyecandy: I want a stable and fast wm (less > memory and cpu, quick access to important places), different workspaces, > and it should be configurable with ordinary files. Of course, It must > run under FreeBSD.=20 > I sniffed into AfterStep, fvwm2 and fluxbox (I don't want to use KDE). I > think, fluxbox is a nice wm and for my future, it will be the default wm > for me. It's also very fast and easy to configure.=20 > Are there any other window manager worth looking?=20 > What is your window manager?=20 If you want efficient window manager (i.e. can be operated using keybinding= s), and you're into tiling window managers, then you can try Xmonad[1], or awesome[2] window manager. OR if you don't want tiling window manager, then you can try Fluxbox and customize with keybindings, and it works great. References: [1] http://www.xmonad.org/ [2] http://awesome.naquadah.org/ HTH =2D-=20 Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ Avoid Success At All Costs !! --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOPEoKAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwjuUP/1kqYtKvu6rGBm2k6gHPOfTl 2cnqaBiopiHkg3ZryCnOPmfj2MACU8KUumAv/1iwDNxavKqNmHPphcb7tk2AmM8f g6Lm1MW7cOvszpdxkzP0Xgcb/EUI1k5KKXcrH//yL9s8xjeYledIpPLlgJRNfMDQ EMwIc/HenJAy+ToPuA6hgwVb9kVBwzHHhbH/uizWRG/ocqtMgV6rv0F+jUO7ww6X 8S1hLxRUwCcaCBJSJ+UP7wuaPwcB6MZSlzecUxK18SZeARgSDYPQueMRnjZp8l8Z 39FnF3L9xtOCyFyTA8rzBs7sCOSOPpeV3NIduHVinFeUSrus8w2CDh0ZrbxlyHWj EFFcawVU/Amj/7wpMAvRkrRbdhnpcB+t8OdnDN91EHNwiUfq32MUsGQ/aNqgl910 DeMMsrbLQvSbWvm+KJ61cj+luyqW0UmqhCY9cMUP8mor0t074S6ksMVPvIePHeju sfrUNuvnDoQc+EI2vGxDonW+lWwO58EL2X+/Ye0JO6gC2WYxwhGoMQznlH5VLUwe F0DCjwztDB0Zx8rRMT15zj/Vs9Mz+e3upPwl/I0kMVuWtGzoZ3/yD5Cu2foyW7sA uNo17yNKZVYL6ajnfWlDsoMuK8ujPieOySEKkhYaBxlalHZootwghR8KLHS99iGN cNi0/qeOXR2O4Qji0Bdt =B/N2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--