From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 10: 5: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echoriath.hiddenrock.com (24-130-184-154.san.rr.com [24.130.184.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2EC937B4D7 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:05:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19135 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Nov 2000 18:06:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Nov 2000 18:06:44 -0000 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:06:44 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Johnson To: Jeremy Vandenhouten Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RE: Satisfied w/ your desktop? In-Reply-To: <20fc6b213fc7.213fc720fc6b@marquette.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (Disclaimer: I am speaking from possibly outdated knowledge here, so please don't kill me if I'm wrong.) GNOME is an interesting beast, in that it is not a window manager, it is a "desktop environment." If you want to run GNOME, you still have to have a window manager. Enlightenment just happened to be the window manager set up as default. If you want something with a smalled footprint, try out Sawmill or Blackbox, I've heard good things about both. Pete On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jeremy Vandenhouten wrote: > Well, I had Enlightenment working properly with Gnome, but recently I > suddenly lost my gnome icon bar from within enlightenment. I > modified .xinitrc and .xsession to load only gnome without enlightment > at which point when I "startx" X-Windows locks up hard and can only be > exited with Ctrl+Alt+F1. > > Unfortunately enlightenment completely usurps anything else as > windowmanager. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Peter Johnson > Date: Saturday, November 4, 2000 3:35 pm > Subject: RE: Satisfied w/ your desktop? > > > I've found that Enlightenment has enough "desktop environment"-type > > features to allow the deprecation of both KDE and GNOME. Of > > course, it's > > a hog relative to other window managers (like Sawmill) but if you > > like eye > > candy, there is no other choice. > > > > Pete > > > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Heredity Choice wrote: > > > > > > Been using KDE for about a year ... tried a couple of others, > > Gnome for > > > > example,found KDE good in terms of stability / functionality....I > > > > hear from > > > > the gnomers that big strides have been made in stability > > > > so.......it maay also > > > > now be worth a crack. but if a windows person asks me about > > using FreeBSD > > > > for a personal computer KDE is the one I am going to show them > > > > > > I had heard that Gnome stability had improved and tried it. > > After 10 minutes > > > it crashed. I shall stay with KDE. > > > > > > Paul Smith > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message