From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 12 02:23:06 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BEC64CA for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:23:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3C5B1310 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-67-138.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.67.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91E292762B; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 03:22:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s2C2MWQf002234; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 03:22:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 03:22:32 +0100 From: Polytropon To: CeDeROM Subject: Re: FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64 pkg: No packages matching 'gnome2' available in the repositories Message-Id: <20140312032232.06368f05.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <531E8E66.7040909@holgerdanske.com> <531F4872.6010201@holgerdanske.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Christensen , FreeBSD Questions Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:23:06 -0000 On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:18:41 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:31 PM, David Christensen > wrote: > > How well supported/ current/ complete are the other desktop environments on > > FreeBSD -- lxde, xfce, whatever? > > I use happily XFCE4 for years :-) Some years ago, I heared that Xfce would become a "Linux only" environment due to strong ties to Linux system intrastructure and services. Is there any functionality you've found missing (for example automount) on FreeBSD? I'm asking this because old(TM) software could do all the "bells & whistles" decades ago, like sleeping / powering off the system, automatically mounting removable media or even saving whole sessions. It's kind of interesting that this should not be easily possible anymore... well, "advanced" technology par excellence... :-) Many years ago, I've been using XFCE 3 (with Gtk 1.0) as a replacement for a group of users coming from a CDE (primarily with a Solaris background). It worked very well and was easy to configure. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be in the ports tree anymore. (One of my old PCs still runs it!) LXDE seems to be _very_ well supported on FreeBSD, I've seen it on different recent systems (FreeBSD 8, 9, and 10). Different "convenience features" can be enabled, the bundled applications (like file manager, if you want to use that) work good. It also integrates nicely with Gtk applications, but you can also use KDE programs if you want. There is no direct limitation. The Gnome 2 descendants, Mate and Cinnamon, don't seem to offer well enough support to make them real alternatives on FreeBSD at the moment. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...