From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 07:57:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 91D7516A420 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:57:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1BB43D46 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:57:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9F7vBjx026514; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:57:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j9F7vA0j026513; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:57:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:57:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20051015075710.GB26129@thought.org> References: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: interesting past 4 hours... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:57:15 -0000 On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:08:31PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 10/12/05, Gary Kline wrote: > > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > > > First, both environments do work on my 400Mhz ThinkPad > > (with almost 300M/SDRAM). KDE has a nicer feel for my tastes > > but the response in beyond crummy even with nearly all > > eye-candy. > > Did you mean to say with all eye-candy disabled?... Have you checked out XFCE? > > Intro to XFCE: > http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=overview&lang=en > > Here are some flash based demos: > http://www.xfce.org/various/flash_demos.html > > The XFCE meta port is in x11-wm/xfce4 and don't forget about all the > plugins: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=XFCE&stype=all > > After you install the XFCE meta port type in rehash and then > startxfce4, if you like it and want to keep it as your default desktop > environment type in "echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc". > the FreeBSD handbook as a bit about XFCE in section 5.7.4 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html > > I use KDE on my fast systems and XFCE on the slow ones. > I'll give xfce a try. Again. I played with it months ago but gave up on it after a few days. Can I run all KDE-ware and Gnome suites too? Thanks for the pointers! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix