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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SMALL Xterms AND Window Managers Date: 28 Oct 1993 00:12:59 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 35 Message-ID: <2an2qb$4ah@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2ajpvi$c60@news.u.washington.edu> <CFIovw.MLn@ucdavis.edu> <2ak3qs$a91@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2ak3qs$a91@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >In article <CFIovw.MLn@ucdavis.edu>, >Jason Gabler <ccjason@othello.ucdavis.edu> wrote: >> >>I was hoping someone had a list/review of different xterm rewrites and window >>managers that are smaller than xterm and twm. > >I've been using fvwm for a window manager, and IMHO it's just as nice as any >I've tried before, with virtual windows, menu bars, etc.. > >Give it a shot. I'll probably make a package of it available for FreeBSD >sometime when I get a little more time, but due to other priorities it >won't be today. Binary packaged versions of fvwm and rxvt for FreeBSD are now available on FreeBSD.cdrom.com in the package directory. Thanks to Geoff Rehmet, I was able to make and test rxvt under FreeBSD, and thanks go to Rob Nation for the two fine utiltities. For folks running with small (or large) amounts of memory, I HIGHLY recommend these two utilities. They are very fine utilities, and the interface for fvwm is extremely configurable. (One user has it setup to look exactly like Motif's mwm. Side by side you can't tell the difference) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me