From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 8 20:49:18 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 07E65106566B for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:49:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A938FC14 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mohawk7.intra.net (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7878E1CC1B; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:49:16 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <4B1EBBCC.20706@hdk5.net> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:49:16 -1000 From: Al Plant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <004801ca780e$6cca8f50$465fadf0$@net> <4B1E62EF.1040903@yahoo.it> <004901ca7815$5546f380$ffd4da80$@net> <6201873e0912080656h77899aa2s77b459d5369350be@mail.gmail.com> <004d01ca7817$cbda4220$638ec660$@net> <4B1EA7F4.2070202@yahoo.it> <20091208205910.bc63919e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091208205910.bc63919e.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ocean , Charles Howse , 'FreeBSD-Questions' Subject: Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o 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: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:49:18 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean wrote: >> also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since >> you say they only need a few programs, you could go with >> just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a >> light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were >> you will only put the applications they need to run. > > An alternative would be IcecWM: Easily configurable menu, > good window managing, no bloat. But I can second XFCE, > too. Maybe you want to run XFCE 3 which has some look & > feel of CDE, is easily configurable and very fast. (I > use it on a 300 MHz P2 with similar requirements as you > mentioned, but without any "Flash"). > > There's a nice dock-like application for X which is used > by the FreeSBIE live system CD. I've got no FreeSBIE at > hand, nor can I remember the application's name, but I > think this would be interesting to you, too. > > > Like Poly I too use XFCE 3 on all my FreeBSD desktops. Its light and fast and anyone can learn it quickly. I have Gnome on a Linux HP netbook and it is a lot slower. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 7.2 - 8.0 - 9* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol