Sujet : Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
De : balglaas (at) *nospam* dds.nl (Jan van den Broek)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 07. Jun 2025, 12:03:24
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2025-06-06, Borax Man <
rotflol2@hotmail.com> schrieb:
On 2025-06-06, Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> wrote:
[Schnipp]
- {open|flux|black}box
- fvwm
- twm
- pwm3
- wmaker
>
I prefer the {open|flux|black}boxes, but on some machines the others
were already installed, and they suffice.
>
In the Windows 7/8-days I had blackbox running on Windows.
>
Do you just randomly swap between them for a sea-change?
Mostly I use what's installed on the machine. When working on my
Windows-machine I'm using vcxsrv[1], and run, depending on my mood,
wmaker or twm from WSL, or pwm3 from a small virtual FreeBSD-machine.
[1]
https://vcxsrv.com-- Jan v/d Broek balglaas@dds.nl "Ich kenne das Leben, ich bin im Kino gewesen."
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