Re: quickie: howto? window manager xterms, but no kde/gnome/xfce
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:36:53AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I'm not totally opposed to what comes up in X if you start with no .xinitrc, but it's a tad ugly. I'd ideally like to have a nifty window manager, like one of those new 3d ones, but I find no point in running kde/gnome/xfce - I launch everything (firefox, etc.) from a prompt anyway. So howto? I presume I just have to put some things instead of exec xfce-session in my .xinitrc? Not sure about nifty, but I think you're looking for something along the lines of fluxbox. It will provide virtual desktops, a way to launch programs from a prompt, and a desktop menu in case you need it. What more does anyone need, right? $ echo exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startfluxbox start ~/.xinitrc Be sure to install the devel version. Is there a guide to this somewhere? Do most window managers configure pretty easily without a desktop? Is this a common demand? Your request isn't unusual but it's been perennially discussed for longer than people care to remember. Google is your friend, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_window_manager should get you started. Configuration is typically done with ... wait for it ... a text editor. ;-) ([HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]- change Shell=c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe from shell=explorer) My friend got the idea for XP. As far as we know it's a completely unknown XP hack. Please credit Scott Plumlee if you share/post it. LOL. No offense to your friend, but that setting is well known and applies to XP, 2000 and, IIRC, the entire Win9x line; there's also a HKCU setting, and a group policy option that mostly works. Google for something like replacement shell, litestep or visit shellfront.org to see what's available either free or commercially. There's no reason to default to something as braindead as cmd.exe as your shell. We're getting way off-topic here, but I'll add a note of caution: replacing explorer.exe with something better as a shell is fairly trivial and while it does work well 99.8% of the time, chances are you will spend endless hours getting things just right. If pursuing an uphill-bothways goal of getting sane or Unixy behaviour from Windows is your goal, I'd instead suggest installing Cygwin, and then hiding from view the desktop features like icons, the taskbar, etc. Cygwin will provide rxvt, bash (or csh, zsh, etc.), vim, screen, ssh, and just about anything else you'd want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
quickie: howto? window manager xterms, but no kde/gnome/xfce
I'm not totally opposed to what comes up in X if you start with no .xinitrc, but it's a tad ugly. I'd ideally like to have a nifty window manager, like one of those new 3d ones, but I find no point in running kde/gnome/xfce - I launch everything (firefox, etc.) from a prompt anyway. So howto? I presume I just have to put some things instead of exec xfce-session in my .xinitrc? Is there a guide to this somewhere? Do most window managers configure pretty easily without a desktop? Is this a common demand? I did the same thing to XP at work and it's way less annoying in my opinion ([HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]- change Shell=c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe from shell=explorer) My friend got the idea for XP. As far as we know it's a completely unknown XP hack. Please credit Scott Plumlee if you share/post it. Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: quickie: howto? window manager xterms, but no kde/gnome/xfce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/23/07, Steve Franks wrote: I'm not totally opposed to what comes up in X if you start with no .xinitrc, but it's a tad ugly. I'd ideally like to have a nifty window manager, like one of those new 3d ones, but I find no point in running kde/gnome/xfce - I launch everything (firefox, etc.) from a prompt anyway. So howto? I presume I just have to put some things instead of exec xfce-session in my .xinitrc? Is there a guide to If you're going to try beryl/aixgl, it would probably suffice just to put 'exec beryl-manager' in your .xinitrc file, but I'm guessing really. I've never run beryl without kde behind it. Although I *have* had kde fail to start completely/correctly and I beryl still ran fine. - -- Andy Harrison public key: 0x67518262 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFGpPtoNTm8fWdRgmIRAndpAJ9uxQ41p9rLEkhVIriKFCVVgXyY+wCg2uFo 9seEi4moVhWBeLyOfEQr444= =1/ZA -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: quickie: howto? window manager xterms, but no kde/gnome/xfce
On 23/07/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not totally opposed to what comes up in X if you start with no .xinitrc, but it's a tad ugly. I'd ideally like to have a nifty window manager, like one of those new 3d ones, 3d?! My VR goggles, when I jack into the global net, only give the illusion of three dimensions. I suppose the bevelled edges of window decorations will suffice for the rest of y'all. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
