Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:56:23 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Martin Lozada <martin.lozada@iac.unibe.ch> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappointed with FreeBSD 4.6 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208220852080.17516-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <3D64DE38.3080406@iac.unibe.ch>
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Martin Lozada wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:51:04 +0200 > From: Martin Lozada <martin.lozada@iac.unibe.ch> > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Disappointed with FreeBSD 4.6 > > > Dear Poeple, > > I installed FreeBSD 4.6 on my computer few days ago. I chose as desktop > Gnome+sawfish. No problems during the installation but after it began > the nightmare. I finally got running startx and what I got was a gnome > desktop without icons . Nautilus didn't start, due to an unexpected > error. The error has to do with OAF. I think it's just the beginning. I > think I wait for a better version of FreeBSD before performing a new > installation. > > Regards, > > Martin L. > FreeBSD is an operating system. GNOME/Sawfish is a window manager. The two arent really related. If GNOME stinks (for you) don't blame it on FreeBSD. Try another window manager, there are bazillions in the ports collection. For yourself I suggest KDE3 if you want a big, full-featured desktop (icons, file manager, etc.) - KDE3 is a lot more polished than GNOME, IMHO (no offense GNOME/Sawfish). If you want something simpler try Windowmaker or Blackbox. All of these can be installed via /stand/sysinstall w/o having to build from source, although the source build is easy, too. One of the great things about the free *nix opsys's is that there are soooo many different windowing environments available. I hope you have better luck with KDE ;-) JB /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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