I like using the NetBSD as the desktop on my Duron 900, I have Blackbox running with bbkeys, I use ccmsn, gtkicq, irssi, Pronto, mozilla, gqmpeg, and so forth.  I also recently installed Windowmaker 0.70, works great, I added wmCalClock and a couple other cute dockapps.  I don't use pkgsrc so all of these are compiled from straight up source.
	I also have a Debian Sid system running with all similar settings and I have to say NetBSD seems to run much quicker and uses less memory as well.

David 

On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:00:29PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 16:13:03 (-0400), Jan Schaumann wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: NetBSD Desktop
> >
> > Yes - bbpager:
> > http://bbtools.thelinuxcommunity.org/available.phtml#bbpager
> > 
> > Man-pages for bbpager and some other bbtools can be obtained from
> > http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/
> > 
> > >  If so does/can it render the icon name in each window?
> > 
> > AFAIK, no.
> 
> bummer -- that's pretty much a high-priority requirement AFIAC
> 
> > > I kinda like icons too, though I usually have too many of them :-).
> > 
> > In Blackbox, Icons are managed kinda as a separate Desktop.  You don't
> > see the icons, but if you pop the root-menu and go into the
> > workspaces/Desktops submenu, there is a "Icons" submenu with all your
> > iconified icons.  Once you select an item, it is de-iconified and
> > restored to the (IIRC) current desktop.
> 
> Yeah, I've got a "windows" menu in ctwm too (though it would be nice if
> it were organised by sub-menus for each workspace as it seems the
> blackbox one might be, and it should show the full icon title, not the
> window title, for iconised windows).  I can have an "icon manager"
> window too (as can plain old twm).
> 
> All in all it sounds like blackbox isn't (yet) a suitable replacement
> for ctwm for my purposes.
> 
> It's probably also a bit less portable than ctwm, being C++ and all....
> I can still build and use ctwm on any Unix with X11R4 or newer, even
> with just a K&R compiler (eg. SunOS-4).
> 
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