Other Window Manager for FreeBSD

[freezr]

Lumina desktop was made by bsd folks for bsd systems...

Home :: Lumina Desktop Environment

Lumina desktop environment project page

lumina-desktop.org

 

[Someone]

I'm trying to find a window manager that fits the philosophy of FreeBSD. What WM should be the perfect match?

As a new user i use sway (wayland) and i am pleased with how it works.

 

[scottro]

freezr, I didn't know that about Lumina. I prefer window managers to desktops, but I like to have a desktop available in case I drop dead and my wife needs to access my computer, I may give that a try.

 

[mer]

freezr, I didn't know that about Lumina. I prefer window managers to desktops, but I like to have a desktop available in case I drop dead and my wife needs to access my computer, I may give that a try.

I've used Lumina in the past when they were doing "TrueOS". It was functional, fairly easy on resources, but was mostly a "one man show" on the maintainer aspect. Current version 1.6.2 was released in 2021 according to github.

 

[kpedersen]

For some light WMs with a BSD heritage there is:

• awm - Created by FreeBSD cofounder (Jordan Hubbard)
• spectrwm - Created by an OpenBSD developer marco@
• calmwm - One of the default WMs in OpenBSD
• progman - Created by an OpenBSD developer jcs@