Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:03:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408161258180.13324@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20140816183110.5878829a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <53EBE6D6.8090501@hiwaay.net> <20140814072430.5e39c3bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53ED2189.6020408@hiwaay.net> <53EE14FA.8060601@hiwaay.net> <20140815192413.78634baa.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EE4480.1080803@hiwaay.net> <20140815194438.2a468e5f.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EF4592.9030406@hiwaay.net> <87iolsift1.fsf@elk.localnet> <20140816183110.5878829a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Polytropon wrote: > Why did I abandon Xfce? Because it's not "portable enough" > anymore. It's a "mostly Linux" desktop environment where the > attempt of running it on FreeBSD leads to despair - it's not > trivial to set up anymore, and functionality is lacking. I don't understand this. xfce works quite well for me. There is no automounter, and a few years back, I wrote one. But doing that well is non-trivial, so I just manually mount things now. Otherwise, I can't think of much that xfce does not do. It does not have preferences settings for positioning multiple monitors, which I think is nothing to do with FreeBSD. LXDE might be fine, it's been a while since I tried it. Back then, it did not seem to have an integrated way of handling desktop icons. For me, that's not a big deal, but I tend to look at minimal desktops as something to give to ex-Windows users.
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