Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:18:43 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: interesting past 4 hours... Message-ID: <676AF154-D0FE-4429-BE9E-58812118B34D@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051015193523.GA29903@thought.org> References: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org> <ef10de9a0510141908g7a7467f9l763d512ea329e7de@mail.gmail.com> <20051015075710.GB26129@thought.org> <cb5206420510150106w5b0641ddra2ce30127d64942a@mail.gmail.com> <20051015193523.GA29903@thought.org>
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On Oct 15, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 12:06:30PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > >> 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 out XFCE? >>>> >>>> Intro to XFCE: >>>> http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=overview&lang=en >>>> >>>> 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=XFCE&stype=all >>>> >>>> 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.org" >>> >>> >>> >> >> 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. >> > > You know, what I'd like my wm to be able to do is > set <whatever> app (say xload) > > /usr/bin/nice -n -17 xload -g 50x90+0+0 & > > so that I'll be able to nice it down to some low value, > control the placing and size of the app, and so on. > I assume that Gnome/KDE (and their light versions) > have some ~user/.* XML files where things are tuned, > but grep -r .* hasn't found anything ... > Is there/Where is the files that list the apps so that > I can set up things and season-to-my-tastes? > > For me, functioality is more imortant than how "pretty" > things look. > > gary > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public > service Unix You should be able to accomplish that via fluxbox the best since it lists all of the programs out in an XML file (I know I'm reaching a bit since I haven't used fluxbox in a while), somewhere in ~/.fluxbox/[something]. Also, you could setup aliases in ~/.bash_alias (see alias syntax with man alias) for your more common programs; I know it's just patching the problem, but it should do the trick. -Garrett
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