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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.indiana.edu!news From: Lars Hofhansl <lhofhans@indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X-windows quality Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:22:01 -0600 Organization: Indiana University Lines: 34 Message-ID: <32E44469.6289809D@indiana.edu> References: <5c13tv$9be@news.istar.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: pionier.eigenmann.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.28 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34222 firesign wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is a good forum for X-winodws concerns, but here > goes... > I've been toying with FreeBSD for a week or two now, and I'm a bit > concerned with the graphic quality of X-windows. I'm using an 800x600 > display, and it is setup for a nice little S3 card. So far, I'm > completely non-plussed by the graphic quality of X. I know it does > colour, but the whole thing looks so chunky, almost like an old PC > running ega. Maybe I just need to be weaned of 95/NT/NeXT type stuff, > but I expected a better looking interface. > > Am I completely blind ? please educate me... First of all X-Windows is just a sever serving low-level requests like "draw a line from (0,0) to (10,10)" and a library for clients to actually communicate with the server. (it's acutally a whole bunch more - networking etc - but you get the idea...) The windowmanager (the program who draws the borders and handles around the other clients) is also "only" a client program. You propably started the TWM-windowmanager which indeed looks a little bit chunky. You can try getting fvwm (or any derivate fvwm-95, afterstep etc.), and use this as your window manager. That means, you can change the appearance of your desktop by just running a different windowmanager. If want to write applications yourself I'd suggets TCL/TK, which is a nice toolkit to write GUI-X-application (recently it even runs under 32bit-windows). Lars