On 03/07/2015, Michael Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 03.07.2015 um 08:26 schrieb John Marino: >> On 7/3/2015 8:17 AM, Bret Busby wrote: >>> Hello. >>> Please also advise whether GNOME 2 is available for the current stable >>> version >>> of dragonflybsd. >>> >> I can answer this question. >> There is no GNOME 2 in ports. FreeBSD doesn't have it either. >> >> There is mate and cinnamon which is a continuation of GNOME 2. They >> build but I'm not sure how well they work. I would suspect they have >> issues. However, nobody seems to uses these so the issues aren't >> getting reported or fixed. >> >> DragonFly for the most part has the same window managers / desktops that >> FreeBSD does. > > I am using xfce4, which is a very slim and cleaned up desktop. > It works great on DragonFly. It's easy to start from command-line > with "startxfce4" without the need of a login manager. > > Regards, > > Michael >
Hello. In terms of the hardware, the primary concern is the Haswell part, which I believe is what is needed to drive the external monitor. I have been trying for about two years, now, to get the system running with the gnome 2 interface, and driving the external monitor. I have, in Linux, Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, installed and running the external monitor okay, but they have gnome 3, in which I run gnome classic, but it does not have the functionality of gnome 2. I also have Debian Linux 6 and 7 installed, and in Debian 7, once again, the interface that I use, is gnome classic, but they can not drive the external monitor. After two years of trying, and having believed that the problem was to do with the nvidia device, I have recently realized that the problem lies in the lack of a driver for the Intel Haswell hardware. I am currently running an Acer 5750G, which has the Intel Sandy Bridge CPU and integrated graphics controller, and an nvidia GEForce GT520M graphics device. This is a lesser powerful computer, with an i5 CPU, and 16GB compared to the Acer V3-772G, and the HDD is half the capacity. This one has MS Win 7 and Debian Linux 6 installed, and, in the Debian 6, I am running gnome 2, and both the Win 7 and the Debian 6, drive the external monitor okay on this system. >From what I understand, on this system, the nvidia device is not used (although I could be wrong). So, for me to use gnome 2, my super dooper i7 computer with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD with GPT, doesn't work so well, as I can't use the external monitor, and laptop screens are a strain, when used for more than short periods of time. I have found gnome 2 to be the best desktop environment with which for me to work, and the functionality of gnome 2, is not in other desktop environments, from what I have found, hence my trying to find an operating system that has gnome 2 and the drivers for the specified Haswell architecture. Just one of the examples of the functionality in gnome 2, that I had not found in the other desktop environments, is that I have in the panel at the bottom of the screen, a six-component system monitor applet, that displays, on an ongoing basis, the percentage usage of each of the CPU, RAM, swap space, and disk usage, and the network data transmission rate and the system load. I have not found that elsewhere, and I have otherwise found the other desktop environments to be unsuitable for me. Thus I am limited to a system with 16GB of RAM , as I apparently can not find an operating system that has drivers for the 32GB system, and that runs gnome 2. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
