Desktop environment - PC-BSD Forums

cm1967 · #1 11-22-2009, 01:59 AM

Hello all,

I've been wanting to try pcbsd and was wondering if it comes, by default, with only KDE? I have a Thinkpad T41 that is nearing 9 years old and environments like KDE and Gnome are a little much for it. If KDE is all that installs by default, is it relatively easy to get a hold of, say, openbox, xfce, etc?

I looked around the pcbsd site for this info but couldn't find anything. Maybe I missed it?

Thanks for the help and information in advance.

sqlpython · #2 11-25-2009, 06:07 PM

Thankfully, PCBSD is a KDE desktop only.
I have used it for a couple fo years and know of no GNOME offering.
Maybe someone else is aware of one..........

cm1967 · #3 11-28-2009, 12:37 PM

Unfortunately, my aging laptop doesn't like KDE or Gnome. I'm going to install it and see if I can find xfce, openbox, or fluxbox.

Thanks.

sqlpython · #4 11-28-2009, 04:45 PM

I dont' know how low powered your laptop is but..........
Your choices could be a linux with an XFCE desktop or FreeBSD with XFCE...
I suppose you could add XFCE to PCBSD but I never tried........

cm1967 · #5 11-28-2009, 06:06 PM

yeah, i've been running Slackware with xfce for the past 5 or so years on this laptop. even when i had the resources, i was never a big fan of kde or gnome. just too much of a minimalist, i guess.

BlackBox · #6 12-08-2009, 05:15 PM

XFCE is available as a PBI, as is Enlightenment. Gnome and KDE 3 are, too.
http://www.pbidir.com/bt/category/WM
I have to say though that KDE4.2 is not overly resource-hungry. I have it here on an old box with 2 x Athlon 3000 MP CPUs, 1.5 GB of RAM, 20 GB hd and nVidia Ti5200 graphics card.
And since PC-BSD is built with KDE at its heart, you will never get rid of KDE completely, even if you run another DE.