Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-22 Thread Keith Seyffarth
snip xfce-4.6 is running here on a couple of machines, with none of those problems. Those actually sound more like xorg problems. I don't think it's XORG for a couple of reasons: * when I first updated xfce, it didn't update xorg, and it was all working fine under xfce4 4.4 * problems

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-22 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Try a smaller one, like evilwm. It's (pretty much) all command line. For example, you would open up a term and launch firefox from there (# firefox). Once you get the hang of its keybindings, which are vi-like, it's fun and easy. It's also compatible with aterm, which will give you

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6: * 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking computer * 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4) * 0% chance of shutting down successfully if

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Fbsd1
Keith Seyffarth wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6: * 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking computer * 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4) * 0% chance of

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Try a smaller one, like evilwm. It's (pretty much) all command line. For example, you would open up a term and launch firefox from there (#

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Keith Seyffarth wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6: * 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking computer * 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4)

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Graham Bentley
Got X? You already got one ;-) http://81.174.174.115/twm/twmrc.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread RW
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:15:37 -0600 (MDT) Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. The XFCE upgrade went smoothly for me, apart from missing icons, although I don't use it all that much so I may have missed something. At