From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 14:07:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B00C16A4CF for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:07:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (chylonia.3miasto.net [213.192.74.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE31143D48 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:07:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (wojtek@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i6LE7WjX009056; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:07:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost)i6LE7WDF009053; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:07:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) X-Authentication-Warning: chylonia.3miasto.net: wojtek owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:07:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar X-X-Sender: wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net To: Joshua Tinnin In-Reply-To: <200407210613.51564.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Message-ID: <20040721160351.P8675@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <1d4a18aea94bac57a.20040720111303.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <20040721000043.20861538@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> <200407210613.51564.krinklyfig@spymac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:07:35 -0000 > > and start browsing. :) > > I just installed the newest XFce today, and wow, it's nice. Very fast. I don't compared to KDE - for sure fast. > want to give up KMail, but like a lot of other KDE apps, it runs other KDE no problem to run KMail without KDE except it will take lot of CPU too. > processes that tend to bog it down in any wm. But it's very quick on XFce, > faster even than on IceWM, at least on my machine. It wouldn't matter so much > to me, but KMail is by far my favorite GUI email client. If I were a better > programmer I'd backwards engineer it without all the hooks into KDE stuff, nice idea. hopefully text-mode pine is fine for me, quick and can be configured to run right programs to view attachment (like xv to view .jpg, gif etc.) > but maybe later ... Mozilla starts in less than two seconds without being > preloaded. Amazing. Who said Mozilla is slow starting? Not me anymore. slow and fast is relative. to machine and to other programs. it takes >10 seconds on my celeron/300 to load mozilla, while links -g starts in 1 second. > > I'm glad you posted this, because it reminded me to give XFce a test. IceWM > doesn't seem to perform nearly as quickly for me (which is odd), but maybe I > don't have it configured correctly. I think I like XFce better anyway ;) strange, or XFce is really so fast. must try.