Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:06:30 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: interesting past 4 hours... Message-ID: <cb5206420510150106w5b0641ddra2ce30127d64942a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051015075710.GB26129@thought.org> References: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org> <ef10de9a0510141908g7a7467f9l763d512ea329e7de@mail.gmail.com> <20051015075710.GB26129@thought.org>
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On 10/15/05, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:08:31PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 10/12/05, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > > > > > First, both environments do work on my 400Mhz ThinkPad > > > (with almost 300M/SDRAM). KDE has a nicer feel for my tastes > > > but the response in beyond crummy even with nearly all > > > eye-candy. > > > > Did you mean to say with all eye-candy disabled?... Have you checked ou= t XFCE? > > > > Intro to XFCE: > > http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=3Doverview&lang=3Den > > > > Here are some flash based demos: > > http://www.xfce.org/various/flash_demos.html > > > > The XFCE meta port is in x11-wm/xfce4 and don't forget about all the > > plugins: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=3DXFCE&stype=3Dall > > > > After you install the XFCE meta port type in rehash and then > > startxfce4, if you like it and want to keep it as your default desktop > > environment type in "echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc". > > the FreeBSD handbook as a bit about XFCE in section 5.7.4 > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html > > > > I use KDE on my fast systems and XFCE on the slow ones. > > > > I'll give xfce a try. Again. I played with it months ago > but gave up on it after a few days. Can I run all KDE-ware > and Gnome suites too? > > Thanks for the pointers! > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service = Unix > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > > Many FreeBSD users came to love Fluxbox. It's a windowmaker-based manager, very nice, very lightweight. It's not an environment, so there are no file managers, viewers, keyrings, etc. included. But it has some support for both KDE and Gnome programs, so you can easily install any Gnome- based tool (it'll also install some parts of Gnome, but not all of it). It has no conflicts with Gnome/ KDE, so you can install and see if you like it.
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