From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 15:21:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3F5A4CC for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:21:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53F081C1A for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-76-226.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.226]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id sBUFLWSG006780 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:21:32 -0600 Message-ID: <54A2C470.6020109@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:27:44 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xwindow advise needed References: <55358.128.135.70.2.1419874589.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20141229235045.b8156cdf.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:21:40 -0000 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.