GUI Suggested?

Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com
Thu Sep 23 18:28:45 UTC 2010


Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden
> <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:
> > Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010:
> >> Hello all.
> >>
> >> In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under
> >> terminal/shell mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved
> >> that way I have never tried any graphical interface.
> >>
> >> I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience
> >> on what path to follow? KDE? any other?
> >>
> >> I would like to test what you suggest is the best for you and if
> >> possible that it is not TOO complicated to setup. The idea is to use
> >> it as my desktop plattfor (documents, browser, email, etc)
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >>
> >> Jorge Biquez
> >>
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> > After trying a few different WMs, I settled on xmonad.  It's minimalist
> > -- meaning it stays out of your way.  It's also highly configurable, in
> > Haskell.  It's lightweight and fast.  It's a developer's WM.
> >
> 
> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and
> vim-like (among other things ;-).
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scrotwm does look interesting -- I read through the man page, but
couldn't find a way to specify that certain windows should be moved by
default to specific workspaces.  Can that be done?

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Sterling (Chip) Camden    | sterling at camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F
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