GUI Suggested?

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Chip Camden
> <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> 
> I'm not too sure what you're asking "certain window should be moved by
> default to specific workspaces." Since you read the man page I'm
> guessing you're not talking about changing which xterm is in focus.
> Focus moves by defualt to each new tem that you open
> (alt-shift-return).
> 
> Maybe www.scrotwm.org will help.
> _______________________________________________

Nope.  The wiki doesn't present anything either.

What I mean is for example when I launch Firefox, I want it to go to
workspace 3.  When I launch gimp, I want it on workspace 7.  I can easily
specify that in xmonad, using either the window class or window title.  I
don't want to have to move all these windows where I want them every time
I log in.

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