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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: Looking for Display/Window manager Message-ID: <1994Mar29.065625.28893@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <tim-w.71.000CA301@pz-oekosys.uni-kiel.d400.de> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 06:56:25 GMT Lines: 18 Tim Weilkiens (tim-w@pz-oekosys.uni-kiel.d400.de) wrote: : Hello, : : I use NetBSD 0.9 and XFree86-2.0. : : I do not like the windows of XFree86-2.0 and so I am searching for : a nice display/window manager. : : Any ideas / ftp-sites ???? : : Tim Try fvwm at spcot.sanders.com. It is very slick, fast and memory efficient. It also provides a virtual desktop and a pretty decent Motif emulation. It's the best window manager I've seen to date and compiles pretty much right out of the box. A few simple changes to the Imakefile, a xmkmf, and a make and it's done. Steve