Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:07:20 -0800 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Peter Johnson <tam@hiddenrock.com> Cc: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Satisfied w/ your desktop? Message-ID: <3A0755C8.692FB12F@wiegand.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011061004220.19126-100000@hiddenrock.com>
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Peter Johnson wrote: > > (Disclaimer: I am speaking from possibly outdated knowledge here, so > please don't kill me if I'm wrong.) > > GNOME is an interesting beast, in that it is not a window manager, it is a > "desktop environment." If you want to run GNOME, you still have to have a > window manager. Enlightenment just happened to be the window manager set > up as default. If you want something with a smalled footprint, try out > Sawmill or Blackbox, I've heard good things about both. > Pete Or also take a look at XFCE in the ports. It too has a small footprint and a nice launch bar for your apps. -- Chip W. www.wiegand.org Alternative Operating Systems > > On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jeremy Vandenhouten wrote: > > > Well, I had Enlightenment working properly with Gnome, but recently I > > suddenly lost my gnome icon bar from within enlightenment. I > > modified .xinitrc and .xsession to load only gnome without enlightment > > at which point when I "startx" X-Windows locks up hard and can only be > > exited with Ctrl+Alt+F1. > > > > Unfortunately enlightenment completely usurps anything else as > > windowmanager. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Peter Johnson <tam@hiddenrock.com> > > Date: Saturday, November 4, 2000 3:35 pm > > Subject: RE: Satisfied w/ your desktop? > > > > > I've found that Enlightenment has enough "desktop environment"-type > > > features to allow the deprecation of both KDE and GNOME. Of > > > course, it's > > > a hog relative to other window managers (like Sawmill) but if you > > > like eye > > > candy, there is no other choice. > > > > > > Pete > > > > > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Heredity Choice wrote: > > > > > > > > Been using KDE for about a year ... tried a couple of others, > > > Gnome for > > > > > example,found KDE good in terms of stability / functionality....I > > > > > hear from > > > > > the gnomers that big strides have been made in stability > > > > > so.......it maay also > > > > > now be worth a crack. but if a windows person asks me about > > > using FreeBSD > > > > > for a personal computer KDE is the one I am going to show them > > > > > > > > I had heard that Gnome stability had improved and tried it. > > > After 10 minutes > > > > it crashed. I shall stay with KDE. > > > > > > > > Paul Smith > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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