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#! rnews 1702 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!academ!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!shellx.best.com!usenet From: Brett Bourbin <brett@selgus.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any nice X-windows manager ? Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 08:23:18 -0800 Organization: Selgus Limited Lines: 28 Message-ID: <30FE73F6.167C@selgus.com> References: <4dd5es$o9h@news.csus.edu> <nebF3cM@quack.kfu.com> <4dk2hl$blg@multivac.orthanc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: brett.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (Win95; I) Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: > > >wleong@sfsu.edu (2-King) writes: > > >>Hi, > >> Can someone recommend a nice windows manager besides twm ? > > >Call me a maniac, but I like OpenLook. > > Okay. Nick: you're a maniac! > > I highly recommend version 2 of fvwm. (Not the 1.X version in ports.) > fvwm2 gives you lots of virtual windows, has builtin sound support for > rplay, and provides you will a really nice toolbar facility that not > only launches applications, but manages and organized their display. A third would be bowman, if you like the NeXTSTEP LAF. This is what I run under FreeBSD. > lyndon@orthanc.com || canada!lyndon || Fax: +1 604 561 2067 > http://www.orthanc.com/ -- Brett Bourbin, President SELGUS LIMITED brett@selgus.com 555 Bryant Street, Suite 221 Palo Alto, CA 94301