Re: [users] Window Managers / Desktops

I only use tiling wms. Awesome on Voidlinux running on top of musl-libC and spectrwm (configured with the same keybindings of Awesome) on NetBSD.
Awesome started as a fork of dwm, but its today an advanced framework to develop and configure "your own" wm extensible with lua.
spectrwm is simple to configure on the fly and has sane defaults. Perfect on a smaller screen where tiling layouts are kind of restricted.
I'd recommend awesome if you want a feature rich, modular wm and spectrwm if you want to keep it simple, offering some flexibility.

Den tors 14 nov. 2019 kl 15:06 skrev 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.

--

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