Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:46:35 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> To: hal <hal@cc.usu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers Message-ID: <20050902194635.217d4f5e.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <90056E03-651E-431A-9D87-5F89C5F6CCE7@cc.usu.edu> References: <90056E03-651E-431A-9D87-5F89C5F6CCE7@cc.usu.edu>
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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0600 hal <hal@cc.usu.edu> wrote: > For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: > default window manager? if you don't install any wm or D.E. then there's probably only the ancient twm > I am currently installing KDE from source and it > is taking forever. > > #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3 > # make you have the choice for kde-lite btw (/usr/ports/x11/kde-lite) <nitpick> KDE, Gnome and xfce4 are Desktop Environments, they use a wm but they are not wm's itselves </nitpick> what kind of wm or D.E. do you want ? one of the most simplistic and light-weight ones is wm2 (see /usr/ports/x11-wm/wm2) takes less than 1 minute to compile afair if you want a desktop-environment, xfce4 is interesting (lightweight), but if you're coming from a MS-windows environment you might like KDE better
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