Hi

I am really loving the DesktopBSD experience and mainly the Software Installation package - it is great.
However my machine is quite slow to run kde, and I want to change the window manager keeping all the infrastruture of DesktopBSD in place.

How can I add wmaker to my login splash screen as option to KDE desktop? I want to keep KDE installed as I will use it to troubleshoot my parents which are also using DesktopBSD (KDE) but in a more powerful machine.

Where can I configure kdm to do that?

Thanks.

Well the solution was right there... in the login pane, just click Sessions and you can choose the window manager of choice... simple and stupid too.

I will install wmaker for ports and ready to go with a snappier machine...

Pedrao

Pedrao;

Did you finally switch windows managers and did you get the performance gains you expected? The reason I ask is that I have an older... ok, very old laptop (p3m & 384MB RAM) and DBSD 1.6 with KDE is sluggish.

thx,
-Craig

I used freebsd (I think release 5.3) on an old 486 laptop myself just a couple of years ago, and I found big differences going from one wm to the next. I think XFCE3 is a good alternative for a slow pc, and definitely what I would use. It was better than blackbox and icewm on my laptop, and an ocean ahead of KDE. I did not test out windowmaker on that particular laptop, but from my experience with windowmaker on another pc, I think XFCE3 is lighter.

If your pc is just a bit better than the 486 I used, I would have tried to use XFCE4 or windowmaker. You can also use XFCE3 and add on particular parts of XFCE4 that you like.