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Date:      Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:25:53 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu
Subject:   Re: Xwindow advise needed
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412292017100.13536@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141229235045.b8156cdf.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <55358.128.135.70.2.1419874589.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20141229235045.b8156cdf.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Polytropon wrote:
>
> For a long time, Xfce has been considered the "less fatty
> desktop" in comparison to the "big players" Gnome and KDE.
> But with the growing incompatibilities btweeen FreeBSD and
> Linux (the system Xfce is primarily being developed on and
> for), you might experience missing functionality.

I use xfce.  The only thing that does not work on FreeBSD, as far as I 
know, is automounting.  There are other ways to do that.  I just 
manually mount stuff.  Otherwise, xfce has the standard desktop features 
without being resource-hungry or having a huge list of dependencies.



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