Re: [users] Window Managers / Desktops

["Luis P. Mendes" <luislupe%gmx.com@localhost>]

Although not with NetBSD, as I only use NetBSD for non-X systems, up
until now, but after a lot of changes I, too, have settled with IceWM
for stack window managers, even after years of using fluxbox.

Although I had it customized and working very well I was still looking
for something better.  Better in the sense that I could arrange
windows more rapidly.
Thought of some manual tiling window managers until a person wrote a
message that made me think.  He said that the arrangement of the
screen should be left to the window manager and that I could try dwm.
I did it and it's what I use nowadays.  When I want to increase or
decrease the amount of screen state for some window it's fast to do
it, but many times it's not even necessary.

Just my experience.

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Luis Mendes


On 20191113 21:14:24 +0000, Clay Daniels wrote:
> I'm new to NetBSD, coming from FreeBSD. I got tired of Google mail and
> found a nice real unix shell/mail account at SDF.org. In the process
> it was pointed out to me that they run their servers on NetBSD. So
> I've started on a fresh install of NetBSD. I'm sure I did not make all
> the right choices in the install, but it works and I found it easy to
> configure a ~/.xinitrc file that loads the TDM Window Manager, you
> know the real primitave page with the 3 xterms & a clock. It's
> actually ok like that for a while, and the first thing I did was to
> ssh into sdf and write an email in good old Alpine to the guy who
> recommended sdf to me.
>
> Well, moving ahead, I've been reading the documentation, and used ftp
> to get the 2019Q3 pkgsrc. I look in /urs/pkgsrc/x11 and see the list
> of choices if I want to move beyond TDM, or maybe just improve on it a
> wee bit. I've intalled NetBSD on my older machine, a 2014  HP
> Pavillion, so I want a fairly light user of resources. I've got 465 Gb
> disk space, which is ok, but it's real slow compared to the new
> home-build Ryzen 7 3700x machine. On the other hand, the old machine
> at one time held three operating systems: Windows 10, MX Linux, and
> FreeBSD, using Rod Smith's Refind boot manager. Oh well, time marches
> on.
>
> My question is what x11 desktop / window manager would anyone recommend?
>
> Clay Daniels
>
> clays.shell%sdf.org@localhost
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org