From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 28 23:30:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A584106577A for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from samankaya@netscape.net) Received: from imr-ma04.mx.aol.com (imr-ma04.mx.aol.com [64.12.206.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B638FC1A for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imo-da04.mx.aol.com (imo-da04.mx.aol.com [205.188.169.202]) by imr-ma04.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id nBSNU0wn000492; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:30:01 -0500 Received: from samankaya@netscape.net by imo-da04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v42.5.) id o.bf9.7309da32 (37589); Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:29:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.2.21] (dsl.dynamic81215233158.ttnet.net.tr [81.215.233.158]) by cia-mb06.mx.aol.com (v127.7) with ESMTP id MAILCIAMB062-92d54b393f6f84; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:29:52 -0500 Message-ID: <4B393F6F.9060607@netscape.net> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:29:51 +0200 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 (Ubuntu-1.1.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kurt Buff References: <4B3927EB.4030802@optiplex-networks.com> <6201873e0912281420n590b173dtac94f9936cca6e3@mail.gmail.com> <4B393463.5060504@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 81.215.233.158 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-AOL-SENDER: samankaya@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:30:13 -0000 > I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a > lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I > have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit > much. Once I installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 with a 'make > config-recursive' then chose my options, then 'make install', the GUI > fired up just fine, and all of the hal/dbus stuff was handled for me. > > Kurt > I thought Gnome already came with Nautilus as Window manager??? Or in FreeBSD is it extra? Sorry am not used to doing things from scratch but soon I will get the hang of it - just give me a couple of days to get the file server I am on about up and running then will transfer the stuff clogging my notebooks HD over there and install a VM through Vbox and really have a go at understanding the GUI. I did play around with FreeBSIE which is FreeBSD with the GUI installed as a live CD which was really cool and light and worked especially well on my 512MB RAM laptop. Now I don't have a memory issue as I have 6GB on a newer machine running 64bit OS's all the way but still need to get to grips with this :-) Thanks for the tip Kurt! Regards, --Kaya