Working with Window Managers
Suppose you don’t want to burden your computer with the behemoth that is KDE, flashy though it might be. Suppose, instead, that you want your desktop UNIX experience under FreeBSD to be a minimalist affair, taking up as little as possible of the precious processing power your machine has, yet giving you the capability to work with modern graphical applications just as easily as you can under Windows.
Before KDE and GNOME, there were window managers. These simple programs, as lightweight as possible (so as to avoid putting undue processing load on the thin clients in computing clusters where they were run), served only the limited purpose of letting you move windows around within your X11 session. There were no menu ...
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