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To: Peter Johnson <tam@hiddenrock.com>
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Subject: Re: Satisfied w/ your desktop?
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Peter Johnson wrote:
> 
> (Disclaimer: I am speaking from possibly outdated knowledge here, so
> please don't kill me if I'm wrong.)
> 
> GNOME is an interesting beast, in that it is not a window manager, it is a
> "desktop environment."  If you want to run GNOME, you still have to have a
> window manager.  Enlightenment just happened to be the window manager set
> up as default.  If you want something with a smalled footprint, try out
> Sawmill or Blackbox, I've heard good things about both.
> Pete
Or also take a look at XFCE in the ports. It too has a small
footprint and
a nice launch bar for your apps.
-- 
Chip W.	
www.wiegand.org
Alternative Operating Systems
> 
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jeremy Vandenhouten wrote:
> 
> > Well, I had Enlightenment working properly with Gnome, but recently I
> > suddenly lost my gnome icon bar from within enlightenment. I
> > modified .xinitrc and .xsession to load only gnome without enlightment
> > at which point when I "startx" X-Windows locks up hard and can only be
> > exited with Ctrl+Alt+F1.
> >
> > Unfortunately enlightenment completely usurps anything else as
> > windowmanager.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Peter Johnson <tam@hiddenrock.com>
> > Date: Saturday, November 4, 2000 3:35 pm
> > Subject: RE: Satisfied w/ your desktop?
> >
> > > I've found that Enlightenment has enough "desktop environment"-type
> > > features to allow the deprecation of both KDE and GNOME.  Of
> > > course, it's
> > > a hog relative to other window managers (like Sawmill) but if you
> > > like eye
> > > candy, there is no other choice.
> > >
> > > Pete
> > >
> > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Heredity Choice wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Been using KDE for about a year ... tried a couple of others,
> > > Gnome for
> > > > > example,found KDE good in terms of stability / functionality....I
> > > > > hear from
> > > > > the gnomers that big strides have been made in stability
> > > > > so.......it maay also
> > > > > now be worth a crack. but if a windows person asks me about
> > > using FreeBSD
> > > > > for a personal computer  KDE is the one I am going to show them
> > > >
> > > > I had heard that Gnome stability had improved and tried it.
> > > After 10 minutes
> > > > it crashed.  I shall stay with KDE.
> > > >
> > > > Paul Smith
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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