Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:52:15 -0400 From: Colin Albert <colintrebla@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative windowmanagers Message-ID: <4E40305F.4080400@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E3ED6BE.1050909@gmail.com> References: <20110805191214.GA19848@kar.user-mode.org> <4E3DAC88.3050509@gmail.com> <20110807132400.GA13759@tinyCurrent> <4E3ED6BE.1050909@gmail.com>
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On 08/07/2011 02:17 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 07.08.2011 16:24, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> El día Sunday, August 07, 2011 a las 12:05:12AM +0300, Volodymyr >> Kostyrko escribió: >> >>> 05.08.2011 22:12, Christian Barthel wrote: >>>> As a Gnome 2.3x user too, I am also a bit nervouse. Gnome 3 is a big >>>> mistake. And there are also rumors that Gnome will be Linux only. >>>> Maybe, >>>> we will never see Gnome3 under FreeBSD, but this is not a tragedy :) >>> >>> Once a year I build up a Gnome or KDE to look at all this stuff... Then >>> I go back to E17. >> >> I have installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/enlightenment >> Could you please point me to a starters guide for beginners? Normaly I'm >> using KDE 3.5.10, but will check it out. Thanks > > Try http://www.enlightenment.org for example. > > I'm starting it from .xsession like this: > > exec /usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start > I used XFCE + Compiz + Emerald for a few years. Yes, bloated I know. It was not bloated enough (or so I thought) to matter. Now I use e17. It's light and useful, the features that increase productivity more than make-up for any limitations due to bugs. Make sure that Hardware acceleration is on however, I find the software acceleration a bit too crashy.
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