On 23/09/2010 04:29, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> 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 yo
I love Fluxbox too for its lightweightness and configurability. If you find
it too minimalistic, I think that XFCE can be a good compromise also since
it runs quite fast compared to KDE and Gnome while having most of their
functionalities. XFCE is also compatible with Compiz...
On Fri, Sep 24, 201
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what
> path to follow? KDE? any other?
Using fluxbox here for ages (used olvwm, ctwm, and fvwm[2] before. It's low
overhead, very low cpu/disk/memory footprint, very fast
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber
> >> wrote:
> >> > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >> >> On Thu, Sep 2
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
> >On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chip Camden
> >wrote:
> >> Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
> >>
> >> I'm not too sure what you're asking "certain window should be moved by
> >> default to specific workspaces." Since you read th
On 09/23/10 10:46, Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:36:03AM +0100, Frank Shute
escribió:
My belief is that people who are comfortable with Gnome/KDE are people
who are familiar with working in a GUI such as Windows® and haven't
come from the commandline.
So,
On 09/23/10 18:22, Adam Vande More wrote:
> If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot.
4.3 was
> pretty big update in terms of stability, and 4.4 has been far more solid
> than not.
I tried 4.5.1 on 8.1/i386 with every port updated, on a 4-core AMD CPU
with a Radeon HD
On 09/23/10 11:04, Mike Clarke wrote:
That's very similar to my experience too but I'm getting the feeling
that I might have to move over to KDE4 before much longer due to
reduced KDE3 support with some of the apps:
Same here.
I delayed trying KDE4 since my old box was too old; as soon as I go
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
>> > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> If y
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Chip Camden
wrote:
> Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> >
>> > If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
>> > lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively main
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber wrote:
> On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>>>
>>> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
>>> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and
>>
On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>>
>> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
>> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and
>> vim-like (among other things ;-).
>
> Why is "written in
Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> >
> > If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
> > lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and
> > vim-like (among other things ;-).
>
> Why
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>
> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and
> vim-like (among other things ;-).
Why is "written in C" considered such a great benefit by the Scrotw
On 22 September 2010 23:29, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> 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
If you prefer terminal applications you may get happy with blackbox. Its
one of the smallest, but fully functional GUIs. And it is still kosher
according to Unix standards. Its my favorite, I even prefer it to
fluxbox, what is a little fancier.
Cheers
herb langhans
--
sprachtraining langhans
her
>On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chip Camden
>wrote:
>> Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
>>
>> I'm not too sure what you're asking "certain window should be moved by
>> default to specific workspaces." Since you read the man page I'm
>> guessing you're not talking about changing
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Chip Camden
> wrote:
> > Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden
> >> wrote:
> >> > Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010:
> >> >> Hello all
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Chip Camden
wrote:
> Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden
>> wrote:
>> > Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010:
>> >> Hello all.
>> >>
>> >> In all these years I have been working with FreeB
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden
> wrote:
> > 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 solv
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden
wrote:
> 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
On Thursday 23 September 2010, Adam Vande More wrote:
> If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot.
> 4.3 was pretty big update in terms of stability, and 4.4 has been
> far more solid than not. All the base KDE apps seem to work
> appropriately, at least the ones I use.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Mike Clarke wrote:
> When I first tried KDE4 it was much slower than KDE3, have things
> improved sufficiently since then for me to think about upgrading?
>
If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot. 4.3 was
pretty big update in terms of s
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:57:46PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
>
> You don't have to choose one of those, there are lots of varied window
> managers, and advocates for each. There's an overview here on fd.o:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Desktops. Many of those are in ports.
That's a much s
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 m
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:29:38 -0500, Jorge Biquez
wrote:
> I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience
> on what path to follow? KDE? any other?
For many years now, I am happily using WindowMaker as my main
desktop. It can be configured easily and does STAY OUT OF YOUR
WA
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:57 -0600, "Warren Block"
wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Jorge Biquez wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what
> > path to follow? KDE? any other?
>
> The Handbook covers setting up the three major desktop environments in
> ht
On Thursday 23 September 2010, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> After years of KDE3 I tried KDE4 and switched back in half a day.
> I found it crawling slowly, with continuous crashes, rendering bugs
> and missing features...
>
> Of course, YMMV.
That's very similar to my experience too but I'm getting
El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:36:03AM +0100, Frank Shute
escribió:
> My belief is that people who are comfortable with Gnome/KDE are people
> who are familiar with working in a GUI such as Windows® and haven't
> come from the commandline.
Totally wrong for me. I come from a UNIX l
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:29:38PM -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote:
>
> 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 te
El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:38:03AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli
escribió:
> On 09/23/10 06:53, Adam Vande More wrote:
>
> > As stated before, it's really a personal matter. I like kde4 a lot,
> > ...
> > It's also
> > lighter and faster than KDE3. It's pretty stable too, but not c
On 09/23/10 06:53, Adam Vande More wrote:
As stated before, it's really a personal matter. I like kde4 a lot,
...
It's also
lighter and faster than KDE3. It's pretty stable too, but not completely
so.
Strange.
After years of KDE3 I tried KDE4 and switched back in half a day.
I found it crawl
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> 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
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Jorge Biquez wrote:
I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what
path to follow? KDE? any other?
The Handbook covers setting up the three major desktop environments in
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html.
Yo
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