From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 8 20:55:15 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 BABB81065672 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575788FC13 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eco.config (93.97.24.219) by april.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A23ECF806A442B5; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:55:13 +0000 Message-ID: <4B1EBD31.6090606@onetel.com> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:55:13 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Howse 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: '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 20:55:15 -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. > > > icewm is a nice lightweight wm (which I use) but with your hardware you might want to look at http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ it's an xfce4 based installation dvd which includes many precompiled package. There are notes for installing flash. Chris