From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 24 03:35:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A631A16A41B for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:35:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203C113C483 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:35:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from [192.168.1.29] (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BAC5C2E; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:11:47 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <46C8EA4B.6010001@hdk5.net> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:11:39 -1000 From: NetOpsCenter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 FreeBSD/i386 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael S References: <545941.20720.qm@web88311.mail.re4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <545941.20720.qm@web88311.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Gnome & FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:35:54 -0000 Michael S wrote: >Good day all, > >I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I >am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used >for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. >The reason is that most of my favorite applications >use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used >to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I >wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) >by not installing KDE. >I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it >polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at >all? > >Thanks in advance, >Michael >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > You may want to look at XFCE which many of the FreeBSD people use as a GUI. Lean and efective. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + noc@hdk5.net + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol