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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:15:54 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64 pkg: No packages matching 'gnome2' available in the repositories
Message-ID:  <lfnjsq$ifr$1@ger.gmane.org>
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David Christensen wrote:

> On 03/10/2014 10:36 PM, Ross wrote:
>> And there is no kde meta-package either since the update to 4.12.3...
>
> I did install MATE at one point, along with GDM:
>
> 1.  The mouse pointer starting at GDM was a wristwatch (?), and stayed 
> that way into MATE.
>
> 2.  MATE had very few applications/ applets.  For example, I couldn't 
> find a file manager.
>
>
> How well supported/ current/ complete are the other desktop environments 
> on FreeBSD -- lxde, xfce, whatever?
>
I don't know about xfce as I've never tried it, but I run LXDE on FreeBSD and have been very happy with it.

The meta is (surprise!) lxde-meta.





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