Xwindow advise needed

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 12/29/14 21:25, Warren Block wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Polytropon wrote:
>>
>> For a long time, Xfce has been considered the "less fatty
>> desktop" in comparison to the "big players" Gnome and KDE.
>> But with the growing incompatibilities btweeen FreeBSD and
>> Linux (the system Xfce is primarily being developed on and
>> for), you might experience missing functionality.
>
> I use xfce.  The only thing that does not work on FreeBSD, as far as I 
> know, is automounting.  There are other ways to do that.  I just 
> manually mount stuff.  Otherwise, xfce has the standard desktop 
> features without being resource-hungry or having a huge list of 
> dependencies.
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I 2nd the motion on XFCE, including the automount situation. I never use 
Thunar or any other desktop file browsers anyway, I do any of that from 
the shell CLI. YMMV & all that rot. Happy new year.

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