Hi
I would just like to thank everyone who gave advice on Friday about
FreeBSD on the desktop.
I started my installs of 5.3RC1 last night and today have a very nice so
far very stable working workstation.
All machines running 5.3RC1 and cvsup'd of this morning at 9pm GMT ports
and base.
XFCE4
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:33:06 -0400, Frank Laszlo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This has been around for as long as I can remember, since before XFree86
> 4.x. Its nothing new.
>
> Regards,
> Frank
Yes, it's all here. Takes a little getting used to the way it works.
Is there any documentation o
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> http://www.xwinman.org/
Following that link I found XPde. If your Windows users really need to
feel at home, this may be for them.
It is not ported though and looking into the code it seems that it will
be some time before it matures, but they provide linux-binaries.
But
Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote:
I was searching for a way to cut-and-paste but couldn't find any
documentation on how to do it with Aterm. I think I got frustrated and
just started clicking and when I hit the scroll button it worked!! The
only changes I've made are /etc/X11/xorg.conf changes to get my Z-
Brian wrote:
Lots of ram is they all have at least 512mb.
That *is* enough. =) I didn't have problems at 512mb, so far...
I should take "Secure" out of there I'm fairly well up on FreeBSD Security
and all boxes are behind a well maintained FreeBSD Router/Firewall.
I have all those books :)
I
What exactly is "lots of RAM"? I think you should have 128MB for a graphical
environment, preferrably more if you want to run lots of memory-eaters (like
KDE). I've been happy for a long time with 256MB, now I have 512 and am even
more happy. =) But 128 to 256 should be sufficient under most con
Hello,
Brian wrote:
So
I've been planning this for sometime and finally have the time to do it.
Great! =)
[...]
I've never really put a lot of time into turning FreeBSD into a solid work
station which I'm sure it's more than able to be.
Yes, it is. =) I've been using FreeBSD 5.x on my desktop
> snip
>
> I'm using a laptop but I do have a wheel mouse I can plug in. I'll
> tinker with it some tonight with both the laptop mouse pad and the
> wheel mouse and see what I come up with. I'll let you know how it
> goes.
Look at the chord option for your X config. Pressing both
buttons at the s
Pro:
Both would be best for someone coming directly from MS
Windows.
Both have high sex-appeal for the great un-washed masses. I
know it sounds superfluous, but people's impressions are
their
realities. If someone coming off Win
> I've never really put a lot of time into turning FreeBSD into a solid work
> station which I'm sure it's more than able to be.
certainly the best I've used on the desktop
> For the most part all the workstations will be used for the usuall,
> web,email, irc and local development.
Noted, I'll r
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 9:43 AM
To: Pratt, Benjamin E.
Cc: FreeBSD Questions; terry tyson
Subject: Re: Aterm cut-and-paste was Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!
Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote:
>I was searching for a way to cut-and-paste but couldn't find any
>documentation on how to do it
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:07:29PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>
> Can people recommend some nice window managers, email clients etc ?
>
I support end-users running both KDE and GNOME. I personally use either
WindowMaker or XFCE, depending on my mood :). Here's my observations:
KDE and GNOME:
Pr
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:07:29PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> Can people recommend some nice window managers, email clients etc ?
http://www.xwinman.org/
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Pratt, Benjamin E. wrote:
I was searching for a way to cut-and-paste but couldn't find any
documentation on how to do it with Aterm. I think I got frustrated and
just started clicking and when I hit the scroll button it worked!! The
only changes I've made are /etc/X11/xorg.conf changes to get my Z-
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:16:27 -0500, Pratt, Benjamin E.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was searching for a way to cut-and-paste but couldn't find any
> documentation on how to do it with Aterm. I think I got frustrated and
> just started clicking and when I hit the scroll button it worked!! The
> on
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:07:29 +0100
"Brian " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
Cool :)
> Can people recommend some nice window managers, email clients etc ?
aterm/mlterm
sylpheed-claws
fluxbox
xemacs
xchat2
firefox
avidemux2
mplayer
dfm
If you don't like fluxbox, start trying window managers till yo
Ben
-Original Message-
From: terry tyson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 9:07 AM
To: Pratt, Benjamin E.
Cc: Brian; FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Aterm cut-and-paste was Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:46:48 -0500, Pratt, Benjamin E.
<[EMAI
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:46:48 -0500, Pratt, Benjamin E.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip
> Terry mentioned Aterm, I like the flexibility, but I have gotten
> cut-and-paste to work. Just copy by highlighting what you want on the
> clipboard, and then paste by clicking my scroll wheel button.
Cool, h
Good luck,
Ben
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:07 AM
To: 'FreeBSD Questions'
Subject: Rid of those Windows Desktops!
So
I've been planning this for sometime and finally have the tim
On 10/21/2004 at 14:07 Brian wrote:
>I've been planning this for sometime and finally have the time to do
it.
>
>We have various machines in the home no real fruity hardware,
everything
>seems to supported by all current versions of FreeBSD 4.9,4.10 5.2.1
etc
>
>I've used FreeBSD for a number of
> -Original Message-
> From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:07 AM
> To: 'FreeBSD Questions'
> Subject: Rid of those Windows Desktops!
>
>
> So
>
> I've been planning this for sometime and finally ha
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:07:29 +0100, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip
> Can people recommend some nice window managers, email clients etc ?
I use 4.10 with Blackbox on my laptop. I installed the libraries for
both Gnome and KDE so I can use some of their apps. I like Evolution
as an Outlook c
So
I've been planning this for sometime and finally have the time to do it.
We have various machines in the home no real fruity hardware, everything
seems to supported by all current versions of FreeBSD 4.9,4.10 5.2.1 etc
I've used FreeBSD for a number of years but mostly in the work place as
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