From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 21 07:20:08 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6C616A41A for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:20:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F7213C459 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:20:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b27so1646392fka for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:20:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=N3wrwzxrREngXi7EftcQ/FsvhnwlflZeUrEl5nINIyjRqVbDzV5Q+ped1+I2rwtLjGoEPt3nC70UN7CnXjrnpU8zJnqk6u+XQSJr28RyiuQg2y36nlIWa4ZIg4tBekJm6omnvYfB3C02uvBrhWvjtcH9FtOCx8ZajUna/qWHan4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NaJo1JvM1UiqSNuHdITwAEZmWrziFWSIDXqou6i27VMpQXygn7RUtD84OUxVBEkTZZl/6qa0COSZksvt0p5a+53JoaF2WdEoMNL53ojDvFSxk4I6p8pkOg8tRTaKQxgFBSKbe6SKGPzSotwfWGCcbnQ0F7b4ofB9EXS42LEeDGI= Received: by 10.82.181.10 with SMTP id d10mr9728008buf.1187680806452; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.5 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:20:05 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Predrag Punosevac" In-Reply-To: <46C92339.5080306@math.arizona.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <545941.20720.qm@web88311.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <46C8F173.8050700@math.arizona.edu> <46C92339.5080306@math.arizona.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Michael S Subject: Re: Gnome & FreeBSD I forgot 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: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:20:08 -0000 On 20/08/07, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I forgot to say in my last massage. The good compromise between Gnome > (KDE) full blown desktop and ***Box X window managers is > Xfce. Xfce is only about 15Mb vs Gnome(KDE)~200Mb. ~> ls -ls /usr/local/bin/evilwm 28 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 28088 May 29 04:36 /usr/local/bin/evilwm Very fast, very responsive, and the "desktop" (being essentially what you put into ~/.xinitrc) is extremely configurable, although, to be fair, if you leave it running for a couple of weeks it might eat up 6 or 7 seconds of CPU time. I suppose a post-script would be that it could not possibly be called a compromise and likely won't be called good by very many. -- --