Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:29:51 +0200 From: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question Message-ID: <4B393F6F.9060607@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3860912281505g59ad4f57n39144bf011e1359c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B3927EB.4030802@optiplex-networks.com> <6201873e0912281420n590b173dtac94f9936cca6e3@mail.gmail.com> <4B393463.5060504@netscape.net> <a9f4a3860912281505g59ad4f57n39144bf011e1359c@mail.gmail.com>
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> I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a > lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I > have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit > much. Once I installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 with a 'make > config-recursive' then chose my options, then 'make install', the GUI > fired up just fine, and all of the hal/dbus stuff was handled for me. > > Kurt > I thought Gnome already came with Nautilus as Window manager??? Or in FreeBSD is it extra? Sorry am not used to doing things from scratch but soon I will get the hang of it - just give me a couple of days to get the file server I am on about up and running then will transfer the stuff clogging my notebooks HD over there and install a VM through Vbox and really have a go at understanding the GUI. I did play around with FreeBSIE which is FreeBSD with the GUI installed as a live CD which was really cool and light and worked especially well on my 512MB RAM laptop. Now I don't have a memory issue as I have 6GB on a newer machine running 64bit OS's all the way but still need to get to grips with this :-) Thanks for the tip Kurt! Regards, --Kaya
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