Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:57:10 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: interesting past 4 hours... Message-ID: <20051015075710.GB26129@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0510141908g7a7467f9l763d512ea329e7de@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051012213632.GA3888@thought.org> <ef10de9a0510141908g7a7467f9l763d512ea329e7de@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:08:31PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 10/12/05, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > > > First, both environments do work on my 400Mhz ThinkPad > > (with almost 300M/SDRAM). KDE has a nicer feel for my tastes > > but the response in beyond crummy even with nearly all > > eye-candy. > > Did you mean to say with all eye-candy disabled?... Have you checked out XFCE? > > Intro to XFCE: > http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=overview&lang=en > > Here are some flash based demos: > http://www.xfce.org/various/flash_demos.html > > The XFCE meta port is in x11-wm/xfce4 and don't forget about all the > plugins: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=XFCE&stype=all > > After you install the XFCE meta port type in rehash and then > startxfce4, if you like it and want to keep it as your default desktop > environment type in "echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc". > the FreeBSD handbook as a bit about XFCE in section 5.7.4 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html > > I use KDE on my fast systems and XFCE on the slow ones. > I'll give xfce a try. Again. I played with it months ago but gave up on it after a few days. Can I run all KDE-ware and Gnome suites too? Thanks for the pointers! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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