Re: Windows X

2004-07-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:51:44 -0700 Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 July 2004 11:41 am, Vulpes Velox > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you want to use kmail under XFce, just find which menu you want > > to put it under, click add and set it to run kmail :) > > Yeah,

Re: Windows X

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 11:41 am, Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to use kmail under XFce, just find which menu you want to > put it under, click add and set it to run kmail :) Yeah, already done, but thanks. Next, I'm planning on checking out the goodies ... most are pro

Re: Windows X

2004-07-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:57:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've used Pine a great deal in the past. Right now I receive far too > much email, which I need to be able to access quickly in ways that > Pine can't do as well for me. I need a complex folder tree and HTML > view (thou

Re: Windows X

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 07:07 am, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and start browsing. :) > > > > I just installed the newest XFce today, and wow, it's nice. Very fast. I > > don't > > compared to KDE - for sure fast. I know that. Obviously something like XFce is going to be fas

Re: Windows X

2004-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> > and start browsing. :) > > I just installed the newest XFce today, and wow, it's nice. Very fast. I don't compared to KDE - for sure fast. > want to give up KMail, but like a lot of other KDE apps, it runs other KDE no problem to run KMail without KDE except it will take lot of CPU too. > p

Re: Windows X

2004-07-21 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Tuesday 20 July 2004 10:00 pm, Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:13:03 -0700 (PDT) > > "Joshua Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DESKTOP: > > If you are planning on this being a desktop replacement then I can > > fully understand wanting to have a cool desktop.

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:13:03 -0700 (PDT) "Joshua Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DESKTOP: > If you are planning on this being a desktop replacement then I can > fully understand wanting to have a cool desktop. KDE is very popular > as well as GNOME. You can see screenshots on their respective

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread Adam Smith
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:37:13PM -0400, Robert Storey said: > Dear Chris, > > I'm sure you'll get a lot of answers to this one, but I'll dive in. > > First off, I guess you mean Xwindows, not Windows X. No. It's not called X Windows. As quoted from the X11 man page: The X Consortium re

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread Peder Blom
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:55:05 -0500 "Christopher Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a new user to FreeBSD. Is Windows X an extremely basic windows > program. I loaded your CD that I purchased from Microcenter onto my > computer and I was not able to see anything except a very primitive > wi

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> space, it does slow down the system, and more software means potentially > more security vulnerabilities. just having X running doesn't seem to slow down system. only using slow and memory hungry software may do it. but i don't see anything wrong in having X on server if it's used as workstatio

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> following sources will probably yield the richest results: > > o the freebsd handbook (perhaps the best OS handbook out there): > - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html > - you also have a copy locally installed at /usr/share/doc/handbook. > > o the freebs

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:55:05 -0500 "Christopher Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a new user to FreeBSD. Is Windows X an extremely basic windows > program. I loaded your CD that I purchased from Microcenter onto my > computer and I was not able to see anything except a very primitive > wi

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread Robert Storey
Dear Chris, I'm sure you'll get a lot of answers to this one, but I'll dive in. First off, I guess you mean Xwindows, not Windows X. Xwindows by itself is basic - you need a window manager to make it look nice. FreeBSD comes with a few good ones. Most people who want bells and whistles use KDE, w