From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 18:42:19 2003 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 83C0637B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:42:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C51643FAF for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:42:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (server1.internal [10.202.2.132]) by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2167147C45; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:42:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:42:11 -0500 X-Epoch: 1045795331 X-Sasl-enc: fFQM54oPnq17DxxICgIKRg Received: from sparky (dialup-63.214.196.192.Dial1.Philadelphia1.Level3.net [63.214.196.192]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5225F70C7; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:42:09 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Bleichert , matrix@altima.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lightweight wm References: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed From: Jud Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:42:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera7.01/Win32 M2 build 2651 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:38:28 -0500 (EST), John Bleichert wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 matrix@altima.net wrote: >> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> im on a pI 233mhz mmx with 64mb of ram >> what do u recommend me to install GNOME or KDE >> > > I use Blackbox on a 166 and it runs great (Fluxbox as suggested by > somebody else is based on Blackbox I believe) - it's a great window > manager. Controlled by a simple text file, multiple desktops, nice > graphical styles, etc. mwm is nice too (very unix) but openmotif takes a > long time to build. Though I have the hardware and disk space to run GNOME, KDE, or both if I wish, I gravitate to a lightweight ethic, so like John, I run Blackbox (as well as bbrun for extra convenience). Very occasionally I also use Windowmaker for a bit of variety. With a fairly lightweight GUI file manager, Rox-filer (not lightweight if built from ports, because the FreeBSD port has a bunch of GNOME dependencies; I just download it from its home page and install it, and it works fine for me - note, I do have Linux emulation installed), browser (Opera), mailer (Sylpheed), editor (nedit, though I also play with Xemacs and a couple of TeX editors), cd player (ascd or wmcdplay) and system monitor (GKrellM2), I feel pretty well set. These are all GUI applications, because you asked about GNOME and KDE, which are big GUI desktop environments. The FreeBSD base system comes with command line utilities which will take the places of several of these applications quite nicely. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message