From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 1 20:50:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435DD37BF01 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:50:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.00) id A0B33F670140; Thu, 01 Jun 2000 20:57:39 -0700 From: chip To: Rahul Siddharthan Subject: Re: XFCE Window Manager Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:49:32 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00060117263800.82982@chip.wiegand.org> <20000602064157.A9760@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000602064157.A9760@physics.iisc.ernet.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00060120513800.01682@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > chip said on Jun 1, 2000 at 17:22:24: > > I just recently changed from using KDE to using XFCE and find it > > quite nice, certainly much faster than the graphics heavy KDE. And it > > will run the few KDE apps that I use without a problem. I am wondering > > about others impressions and experience with XFCE? I have also used > > Afterstep but think I might just stick with XFCE. Themes and other > > fancy eye-candy don't mean much to me, just a clean interface where I > > can get some work done, and TWM is a bit too sparton. > > I like XFCE too. But KDE apps will run on any window manager, even > TWM, if you have the KDE and QT libs installed. > > R. I wasn't aware of that. All the same though, I like the looks of XFCE much better. It looks like the CDE on the Solaris boxes that are used in the sonar equipment that my company makes. It's a neat, clean look. Not real busy and cluttered. -- Chip Wiegand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ visit Alternative Operating Systems www.wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message