Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:27:44 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xwindow advise needed Message-ID: <54A2C470.6020109@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412292017100.13536@wonkity.com> References: <55358.128.135.70.2.1419874589.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20141229235045.b8156cdf.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412292017100.13536@wonkity.com>
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On 12/29/14 21:25, Warren Block wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I 2nd the motion on XFCE, including the automount situation. I never use Thunar or any other desktop file browsers anyway, I do any of that from the shell CLI. YMMV & all that rot. Happy new year. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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