Re: best window manager

[Brennan W Stehling <brennan offwhite net>]

I tried a few variations and eventually went in with gnome-session and
went in with enlightenment.  Then I used the gnome control panel to select
blackbox as my windowmanager.  Then I pressed the try button and it
switched over nicely.  I saved everything and logged out.

When I logged back in only the panel would show up and no blackbox.  It
did not work properly.  I saw some error messages after I logged out which
said something about not supporting gnome, but I thought blackbox had the
hints in place.

Does anyone know about that?

I guess I am still hunting for a good gnome compatible window manager.

Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Tom Gilbert wrote:

> * Brennan W Stehling (brennan@offwhite.net) wrote:
> > I have been messing with a fresh upgrade/install of FreeBSD with a recent
> > Gnome set and want to figure a better window manager set.  I am using
> > enlightenment, but that is a bit sluggist and unwieldy at times.  I use to
> > use Windowmaker but I am not sure how I would run gnome with that.  Can I
> > just put this in my .xinitrc file?
> > 
> > .xinitrc:
> > #--
> > 
> > panel
> > exec wmaker
> > 
> > #--
> 
> Definitely not =)
> 
> Technically, you should *only* have
> exec gnome-session
> 
> And choose your window manager using the control panel.
> 
> If you don't want to use gnome-session, then the method above is
> incorrect still, as it won't progress past the panel. Try:
> panel &
> exec wmaker
> 
> And the plain answer to your question is to spend a few days in each
> wm and choose whichever suits you best.
> 
> Tom.
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