Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 21:13:59 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: Rocky <rockiiieee@yahoo.com>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Windows recommendation Message-ID: <NMRQHBJI3VLK1ZC90730WUWTVSDAPO.3ceee557@sparky> In-Reply-To: <20020525121435.A40647@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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5/24/2002 8:14:35 PM, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: >On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 03:33:24PM -0700, Rocky wrote: > >[...] >> I tried kde and liked it but i ran into tonnes of >> issues with dependencies when i tried installing a >> local version of it in my FreeBSD desktop. So, i am >> definitely looking for some software that i don't have >> to spend a lifetime installing and making it work. > >If you install KDE from the ports system (using a pretty recent ports >tree), all dependencies should resolve themselves automatically. Jonathan Chen's suggestion to install KDE from ports isn't a bad one. Something relatively lightweight with a fairly friendly user interface would be WindowMaker. Just right-click on the desktop to show a menu, including a "Run" selection that, as in Windows, will bring up a dialog allowing you to type the name of any application you want to run. It's sufficient by itself or can be installed on top of the "environments" like KDE or Gnome. Without KDE or Gnome, you would need a file manager. A lightweight, simple standalone one with a fairly friendly look and feel is Rox-Filer. Opinions on editors can turn into religious wars; the absolute simplest is ee, which comes with the basic FreeBSD system. OTOH, ee has few sophisticated capabilities. Vi also comes with the base system and is very powerful but needs to be learned. Beyond these, I haven't bothered (well, I did install Emacs and XEmacs, but these are at least as much environments as editors) - other folks may have recommendations. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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