interesting past 4 hours...

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:08:31PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 10/12/05, Gary Kline <kline at 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



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