From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 15:41:31 2002 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 A610D37B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (boris.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3866C43E65 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6PMfRLL079103; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g6PMfQI1079100; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:41:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Jirsa To: Ed Yu Cc: MET , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop In-Reply-To: <20020725223109.99142.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020725153614.X79056-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter on boris.st.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Ed Yu wrote: > 4. Things like right click to change resolution and > wizards to help setup things, and various other small > things. But once you get the hang of it, you will > stick with FreeBSD, trust me. This type of thing is what still bothers me, after years of using various systems... X, by its very nature, is not made to be reconfigured once it's running. If someone would take the time to make it 1) easy to configure (linux installers have basically done this) 2) easy to reconfigure while running (if it exists, I haven't seen it) X would instantly become more usable. > You can find substitutes for AIM (I know there is one > because I used it before, not Jabber, sorry I don't > remember the name) and Yahoo IM has FreeBSD version. Gaim and Everybuddy work well (read: acceptable as long as AOL/Yahoo/MSN have not changed their protocol in the last week). - Jeff Jirsa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message