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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:27:41 +0000
From:      Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com>
To:        Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gnome & FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20070820172741.598e46fc.ghirai@ghirai.com>
In-Reply-To: <858112.76105.qm@web88303.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
References:  <20070820055238.J14030@small> <858112.76105.qm@web88303.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:11:54 -0400 (EDT)
Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thank you all for the suggestions. I am going to take
> into consideration everything everyone wrote.
> 
> Michael
> 
> --- "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote:
> > 
> > > Good day all,
> > >
> > > I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD
> > machine. I
> > > am  considering installing Gnome, which I haven't
> > used
> > > for long while and the last time was on Linux
> > anyway.
> > > The reason is that most of my favorite
> > applications
> > > use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get
> > used
> > > to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I
> > > wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and
> > qt)
> > > by not installing KDE.
> > > I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it
> > > polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at
> > > all?
> > There is a minimal gnome installation in
> >  	/usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite
> > you can start with that and - if you like it - add
> > all the the 
> > other stuff. 
> > One caveat:
> > First install /usr/ports/x11/xorg (i.e. xorg-7.2)
> > and check if 
> > your monitor and graphics card are set up correctly.
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > Uli.
> > 

I'd suggest you also give xfce a try (http://xfce.org), it's also GTK based,
and lighter than gnome/kde, while still having plenty of features.

-- 
Regards,
Ghirai.



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