From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 15:02:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6453D16A415 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:02:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA83043D5E for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:02:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id kAFF2gVu095545; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:02:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:03:15 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <731330.3106.qm@web55108.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <20061115130525.GC11243@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061115130525.GC11243@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611151003.15808.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Marshall Subject: Re: desktop for bsd 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, 15 Nov 2006 15:02:48 -0000 On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:05, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:28:58AM -0800, Marshall wrote: > > hi, > > I was on the freesbie site and it is a live cd > > version, but i'd like to have a full version, with > > XFCE, is this already in freebsd? I'd like to have it > > as the default desktop. I did see a BSD based OS with > > XFCE as the only desktop, and i'm not sure if it was > > Freesbie, do you know if this is true? I'm new to > > linux and so far I like the XFCE desktop look and it's > > speed, I think because of the Darwin base, it makes > > since for me to have it, as Mac is second to Windows. > > I have tried over 30 different linux versions and most > > are close to each other, and most all use KDE, which > > is ok, but I perfer something faster. Hope I'm making > > since! > > I don't know if you can get xfce while running from a live CD > unless whoever made the live CD put it on there. but, it is > available for FreeBSD, no problem. It just so happens that FreeSBIE boots to xfce by default. Download it and give it a try. > Just install the latest FreeBSD on your machine. > Then install xfce from the ports (/usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce). > > You will need to configure it and then set up your xinitrc > so it will start xfce when you enter the startx command. > Should work just dandy. JN