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#! rnews 1591 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any nice X-windows manager ? Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 17:13:36 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <310C1F40.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <4dd5es$o9h@news.csus.edu> <nebF3cM@quack.kfu.com> <4dk2hl$blg@multivac.orthanc.com> <4e3idn$uv@peabody.colorado.edu> <DLoz0M.AoJ@cfanews.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Oliver Oberdorf <oly@russ> Oliver Oberdorf wrote: > I don't know if olvwm is available under BSD, but if it is then it > offers the virtual desktop. In fact, you can rescale the desktop It is, and I agree that it's a fine window manager - I used it for years under FreeBSD before switching, for some reason that I'm still not 100% sure I remember, to fvwm. fvwm does most of what I want to do, though I'll readily admit that I've always liked olvwm's panner much better. I'd guess that it's the price of XView that has kept so many away - it's a lot of bloat for just a window manager, and the other xview apps have sort of mouldered. fvwm is small and easy to compile, with few external dependencies. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project