Gnome & FreeBSD
Ghirai
ghirai at ghirai.com
Tue Aug 21 23:24:28 PDT 2007
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:11:54 -0400 (EDT)
Michael S <msherman77 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you all for the suggestions. I am going to take
> into consideration everything everyone wrote.
>
> Michael
>
> --- "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich at pukruppa.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote:
> >
> > > Good day all,
> > >
> > > I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD
> > machine. I
> > > am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't
> > used
> > > for long while and the last time was on Linux
> > anyway.
> > > The reason is that most of my favorite
> > applications
> > > use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get
> > used
> > > to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I
> > > wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and
> > qt)
> > > by not installing KDE.
> > > I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it
> > > polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at
> > > all?
> > There is a minimal gnome installation in
> > /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite
> > you can start with that and - if you like it - add
> > all the the
> > other stuff.
> > One caveat:
> > First install /usr/ports/x11/xorg (i.e. xorg-7.2)
> > and check if
> > your monitor and graphics card are set up correctly.
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Uli.
> >
I'd suggest you also give xfce a try (http://xfce.org), it's also GTK based,
and lighter than gnome/kde, while still having plenty of features.
--
Regards,
Ghirai.
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