From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 22 06:24:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B0916A469 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghirai@ghirai.com) Received: from iota.fastbighost.com (iota.fastbighost.com [65.98.8.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7884B13C4A7 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghirai@ghirai.com) Received: from [89.122.139.50] (port=61036 helo=deimos.bsd.nix) by iota.fastbighost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IN87v-0000Op-QK; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:21:08 +0000 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:27:41 +0000 From: Ghirai To: Michael S , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.4 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - iota.fastbighost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - ghirai.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: Subject: Re: Gnome & FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:24:28 -0000 On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:11:54 -0400 (EDT) Michael S wrote: > Thank you all for the suggestions. I am going to take > into consideration everything everyone wrote. > > Michael > > --- "P.U.Kruppa" 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.