GUI Suggested?

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010:
> Hello all.
> 
> In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under 
> terminal/shell mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved 
> that way I have never tried any graphical interface.
> 
> I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience 
> on what path to follow? KDE? any other?
> 
> I would like to test what you suggest is the best for you and if 
> possible that it is not TOO complicated to setup. The idea is to use 
> it as my desktop plattfor (documents, browser, email, etc)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Jorge Biquez
> 
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"

After trying a few different WMs, I settled on xmonad.  It's minimalist
-- meaning it stays out of your way.  It's also highly configurable, in
Haskell.  It's lightweight and fast.  It's a developer's WM.

I haven't been at all attracted to the various desktop managers: KDE,
GNOME, etc.  What do you get for all that weight?

-- 
Sterling (Chip) Camden    | sterling at camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F
http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com        | http://chipsquips.com
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 488 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20100923/a02e316c/attachment.pgp