From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 19 00:58:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736C116A47F for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:58:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from mail.nickwithers.com (mail.manrags.com [203.219.206.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E161613C4BA for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:58:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from localhost (presario.shmon.net [10.0.0.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nickwithers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10AB3A3F3; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:37:17 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:36:39 +1100 From: Nick Withers To: Gary Kline Message-Id: <20070219113639.3e836d7f.nick@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: <20070218225730.GA55700@thought.org> References: <20070218225730.GA55700@thought.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-nickwithers-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-nickwithers-MailScanner-From: nick@nickwithers.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Foo***-lite ? 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: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:58:35 -0000 On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:57:30 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > > People, > > I hope there are some kde or gnome wizards around to give > me a few clues about tuning my gnome|kde- lite window managers. So > far I have the regular gnome2 and KDE3 desktops going on my test box > quite well. kde at least gives users the opportunity to > set the level of eye-candy from low to high. I have not seen > anything equivalent for gnome. As far as I know, GNOME doesn't really have "eye candy" the same way KDE does (there are no fading menus, bouncy transparent cursors, etc.). > How do I test gnome2-lite and kde-lite? I've found startkde, but > no startkdelite. I've found the gnome-session binary, but no > gnomelite-session. > > If I need kde|gnome2- lite.desktop files, please clue me in. > Otherwise, how do I instiantiate these lite flavor > desktops? I think you've misunderstood what the -lite versions are. From ports/x11/gnome2-lite/pkg-descr: ____ This metaport installs the pieces of the GNOME 2 desktop that are needed to provide a functional desktop. x11/gnome2 contains the full version of the GNOME 2 desktop environment. ____ In other words, it's the same GNOME, but installing the gnome2-lite port doesn't install "extras", like games. GNOME is invoked the same way regardless of which port is used. I believe that the kde-lite port is the same. > thanks much, > > gary > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service > Unix -- Nick Withers email: nick@nickwithers.com Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446