From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 5:59:11 2002 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 10CC337B401 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 05:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4492D43E65 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 05:59:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id E29E34FA51; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:56:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4564A0D; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:56:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:56:23 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Martin Lozada Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappointed with FreeBSD 4.6 In-Reply-To: <3D64DE38.3080406@iac.unibe.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 22 Aug 2002, Martin Lozada wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:51:04 +0200 > From: Martin Lozada > 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