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#! rnews 1714 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any nice X-windows manager ? Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:07:35 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4f4kt7$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4dd5es$o9h@news.csus.edu> <nebF3cM@quack.kfu.com> <4dk2hl$blg@multivac.orthanc.com> <4e3idn$uv@peabody.colorado.edu> <DLoz0M.AoJ@cfanews.harvard.edu> <310C1F40.446B9B3D@freebsd.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > 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 is simply the Emacs among the window managers. You can make almost everything with it that makes sense, and i have yet to find two ``real-world'' desktops using fvwm that would even look roughly similar. (Except perhaps my desktop at work and the one at home. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)