Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-17 Thread Cág
Maya wrote: >> Modular xorg in pkgsrc includes twm but not ctwm as far as I know, >> so I don't get ctwm. I have no /usr/X11R7 or /usr/X11R6 directory. > > because ctwm is an independent package. it's wm/ctwm. https://github.com/NetBSD/xsrc/tree/trunk/external/mit/ctwm/dist There's also vtwm

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Sun 09 Sep 2018 at 02:20:32 +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I just looked on NetBSD installation, no ctwm. > It is new for 8.0 I believe: > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40 Jul 17 16:59 /usr/X11R7/bin/ctwm* > > I also don't think there is any ctwm in haikuports, couldn't find it. > >

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Sun 09 Sep 2018 at 02:20:32 +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I just looked on NetBSD installation, no ctwm. > It is new for 8.0 I believe: > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40 Jul 17 16:59 /usr/X11R7/bin/ctwm* > > I also don't think there is any ctwm in haikuports, couldn't find it. > >

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-11 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Benny Siegert wrote in : |On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:17 PM Steffen Nurpmeso \ |wrote: |> |> Nothing to continue in my eyes; you can always have more and |> iterate over the code of course. No drag'n drop, of course. But |> copy, that is enough for me. It used to use GNU autoconf; |> i

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-11 Thread Benny Siegert
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:17 PM Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > > Nothing to continue in my eyes; you can always have more and > iterate over the code of course. No drag'n drop, of course. But > copy, that is enough for me. It used to use GNU autoconf; > i have patches and last i compiled it (a few

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-10 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Thomas Mueller wrote in <20180909071938.644bfa7...@mail.duskware.de>: .. |I didn't know about i3-gaps but now see it in FreeBSD ports but not pkgsrc. Thing is also, you seem to have super-duper boxes whereas i am happy to have tinyc in order to develop my little MUA and not more than that

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-10 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Thomas Mueller wrote in <20180908132956.6a9dea7...@mail.duskware.de>: |from Pedro Pinho: | |> Here's a complete list of WM's for *nix systems |> https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html | |> What exactly do you mean with " I tried awesome some years ago, but the |> "awesome"

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-10 Thread Patrick Welche
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 05:01:41PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote: > Not as fun as I had hoped! It has been a while since the last round, and I > wondered, given an ideal world with infinite developer time and full > documentation, with just an eye on correctness, what current views were on: > > *

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Sat 08 Sep 2018 at 07:25:17 +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I like substance as opposed to hot air, hence would stay away from > > something like Enlightenment (seemed poorly documented, at least in the > > time of NetBSD 7.99.1. > Try ctwm. An older version is already installed

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-08 Thread Bruce Nagel
On Sat, 8 Sep 2018, Thomas Mueller wrote: Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 07:25:17 + From: Thomas Mueller To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended desktop environment? from Pedro Pinho: Here's a complete list of WM's for *nix systems https

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-08 Thread Pedro Pinho
Thanks for the answer. I see Enlightment as a DE and not just a WM. Awesome, on the other hand is a WM with a bar and I'm very happy running awesome :-) As for i3, there's i3, https://i3wm.org/ and i3-gaps, https://github.com/Airblader/i3 There are plenty of tiling WM's. Den lör 8 sep. 2018

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-08 Thread Rhialto
On Sat 08 Sep 2018 at 07:25:17 +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I like substance as opposed to hot air, hence would stay away from something > like Enlightenment (seemed poorly documented, at least in the time of NetBSD > 7.99.1. Try ctwm. An older version is already installed with NetBSD. In

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Pedro Pinho: > Here's a complete list of WM's for *nix systems > https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html > What exactly do you mean with " I tried awesome some years ago, but the > "awesome" decoration/artwork just got in the way and confused me"? > Don't take me wrong, I would

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-06 Thread Patrick Welche
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 07:38:17AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:09 AM Wean Irdeh wrote: > > > > Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop environment > > for NetBSD? > > This should be fun. Not as fun as I had hoped! It has

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-06 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Pedro Pinho wrote in : |Here's a complete list of WM's for *nix systems [1]https://www.gilesorr.\ |com/wm/table.html[/1] | | [1] https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html ahwm, only ahwm, since 2002. The original v0.9.0 ball with some compiler fixes on top, not the github stuff. The "as close

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-06 Thread Diogo Galvao
Em qua, 5 de set de 2018 às 19:04, xpetrl escreveu: > > I used xfce for years and I spend lot of time just rearranging window > with the mouse pointer, positioning for example a Firefox window next to > xterm terminals. I was getting mad! > Hi. I'm not sure it has always been a feature or if it

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-06 Thread Pedro Pinho
hat was so confusing. Awesome user here ;-) Den tors 6 sep. 2018 kl 12:05 skrev Thomas Mueller < mueller6...@bellsouth.net>: > > > On 05.09.2018 12:04, Wean Irdeh wrote: > > > Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop > environment > > > for Net

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On 05.09.2018 12:04, Wean Irdeh wrote: > > Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop environment > > for NetBSD? > I used xfce for years and I spend lot of time just rearranging window with the > mouse pointer, positioning for example a Firefox

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-06 Thread Martin Cermak
On Wed 2018-09-05 17:04 , Wean Irdeh wrote: > Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop environment for > NetBSD? The best wm ever is fvwm2. /me hides ;) Martin

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-06 Thread Jay Patel
ded desktop environment > for NetBSD? -- Jay Patel *https://unitedbsd.com/ <https://unitedbsd.com/>* *usually found @ https://riot.im/app/#/room/#bsd:matrix.org <https://riot.im/app/#/room/%23bsd:matrix.org>*

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-05 Thread xpetrl
On 05.09.2018 12:04, Wean Irdeh wrote: Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop environment for NetBSD? I used xfce for years and I spend lot of time just rearranging window with the mouse pointer, positioning for example a Firefox window next to xterm terminals. I

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-05 Thread Sad Clouds
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 17:31:00 +0200 Martin Husemann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:28:11PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > Which hardware platform? If it's x86 then anything you can find in > > pkgsrc will probably work. I tend to use xfce on x86, but on > > sparc64 it had issues, so I used

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-05 Thread Mayuresh
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 05:04:08PM +0700, Wean Irdeh wrote: >Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop environment >for NetBSD? What do you mean by "for NetBSD"? I do not think (barring availability) OS has any bearing on choice of wm. "recomme

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-05 Thread Martin Husemann
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:28:11PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > Which hardware platform? If it's x86 then anything you can find in > pkgsrc will probably work. I tend to use xfce on x86, but on sparc64 it > had issues, so I used simple window manager like windowmaker. FWIW, I am typing this on a

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-05 Thread Sad Clouds
On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 17:04:08 +0700 Wean Irdeh wrote: > Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop > environment for NetBSD? Which hardware platform? If it's x86 then anything you can find in pkgsrc will probably work. I tend to use xfce on x86, but on sparc64 it had issu

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-05 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:09 AM Wean Irdeh wrote: > > Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop environment for > NetBSD? This should be fun. I'm way behind the times in this area. Way back in the early 2000s or so I was using KDE3 on NetBSD quite happily. I hav

Re: Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-05 Thread Pedro Pinho
://unitedbsd.com/t/what-does-your-bsd-look-like-screen-shots/109/9 Regards Den ons 5 sep. 2018 12:09Wean Irdeh skrev: > Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop environment > for NetBSD?

Recommended desktop environment?

2018-09-05 Thread Wean Irdeh
Hi all mailing list members! What is your recommended desktop environment for NetBSD?