Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-22 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but java desktop environment counsumes very much cpu, I don't like it. Many Open Look fans said the same about CDE when that abomination was thrust upon us! At least dtmail uses MIME by default, rather than the old Sun-specific mail attachment scheme. A number of

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-22 Thread Ian Collins
Richard L. Hamilton wrote: IMO, one should be able to run openoffice + firefox + one or two other big apps plus the basic desktop stuff without needing 4GB or more RAM to run it decently. Firefox is perhaps the worst single culprit, but everything helps (or hurts), and the desktop change

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the application that eat the memory. Your list ran happily with 2G of RAM (for several weeks) on a very big desktop. Runs until Firefox absorbs all the RAM... These days, firefox tells X to absorb the RAM and restarting firefox only partially helps.

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-22 Thread Moinak Ghosh
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the application that eat the memory. Your list ran happily with 2G of RAM (for several weeks) on a very big desktop. Runs until Firefox absorbs all the RAM... These days,

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-21 Thread wan_jm
but java desktop environment counsumes very much cpu, I don't like it. 在2008-07-20,Shawn Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写道: wan_jm wrote: I have installed the Solaris Express b93, but when I log in, I can only use gnome, there is no CDE in the session menu. what can i do as I want to use

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
wan_jm wrote: I have installed the Solaris Express b93, but when I log in, I can only use gnome, there is no CDE in the session menu. what can i do as I want to use CDE as it consumes less cpu than GNOME. CDE was removed from the session menu as the next step in the EOL process. It's still

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-19 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
I have installed the Solaris Express b93, but when I log in, I can only use gnome, there is no CDE in the session menu. what can i do as I want to use CDE as it consumes less cpu than GNOME. Most of it is still there, but I think by default gdm is being run instead of dtlogin, and the session

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-19 Thread Shawn Walker
wan_jm wrote: I have installed the Solaris Express b93, but when I log in, I can only use gnome, there is no CDE in the session menu. what can i do as I want to use CDE as it consumes less cpu than GNOME. As noted many times before, CDE is in the process of being EOLd (end-of-lifed). If you

Re: [osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-19 Thread Dave Walker - Sun UK
I gather that fvwm2 has a mode which behaves much like CDE, so while I've not tried it myself yet, you may find it worth a look, for future builds. Cheers, -- Dave Walker Client Solutions,Sun Microsystems UK Tel: +44 780 3079264 http://blogs.sun.sun.com/davew/ Sent from my iPhone On 19 Jul

[osol-discuss] why there is no CDE in solaris Express

2008-07-18 Thread wan_jm
I have installed the Solaris Express b93, but when I log in, I can only use gnome, there is no CDE in the session menu. what can i do as I want to use CDE as it consumes less cpu than GNOME. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___