From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 10:47:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8751A16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:47:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA4243D4C for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:46:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1SAkCqS012424 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:46:12 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j1SAk80A012421; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:46:08 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:46:08 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: Chris Message-ID: <20050228104608.GE1672@alzatex.com> References: <422250B8.1090504@makeworld.com> <422253B7.9060803@cis.strath.ac.uk> <42225455.8020908@makeworld.com> <42225788.8080303@cis.strath.ac.uk> <42225892.1060706@makeworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42225892.1060706@makeworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C cc: FreeBSD - Questions cc: Chris Hodgins Subject: Re: How would you install all Gnome ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:47:11 -0000 On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:32:34PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Chris Hodgins wrote: > >Chris wrote: > > > >>Chris Hodgins wrote: > >> > >>>Chris wrote: > >>> > >>>>Is there an all inclusive command to install all Gnome ports from > >>>>within the ports tree? > >>>> > >>> > >>>Not everything but enough to get you started: > >>> > >>>/usr/ports/x11/gnome2$ cat pkg-descr > >>>GNU Network Object Model Environment > >>> > >>>This metaport installs the entire GNOME 2 desktop, including > >>>the the most common user applications. Other popular GNOME > >>>applications can be installed from the other GNOME 2 metaports: > >>> > >>> * x11/gnome2-fifth-toe > >>> * x11/gnome2-power-tools > >>> * editors/gnome2-office > >>> * devel/gnome2-hacker-tools > >>> > >>>WWW: http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ > >>> > >>> > >> > >>Perfect - this is exactly what I wanted. I'm a KDE munkie myself, but > >>I wanted to dabble w/Gnome. > >> > >>Thank you Chris H. > >> > > > >I would also highly recommend Xfce4.2. :) > > > >Chris > > > > > > I would - but I'm not into intense modification to my wm. A few teaks > here and there ore fine, but if I need to "learn" to setup a decent wm, > then it sorta defeats the purpose. I don't think it neccessarily defeats the purpose, the default settings usually work just fine in my experience. But I've found that some other windows manager like fvwm2 offer much more flexibility in setting them up than anything kde or gnome's metacity offer. And best of all, once you have it tweaked perfectly, then all I you have to do is copy a text file around. For fvwm2, thats .fvwm2rc. Every system I use KDE on I have to spend quite a while customizing it to fit me. And even then I always miss certain shortcuts that I use a lot. Now if I had to start from scratch writing my .fvwm2rc, then I probably never would have, but luckily a good default one is provided. > > I love BSD under a wm, but I don't have the luxury of spending hours to > days makeing a "kick-ass" looking environment. That's just me tho - I > have seen what other can do - I lack the creative-eye to do that fancy > stuff. > > > -- > Best regards, > Chris > > Go where the money is. > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C