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reddragdivaWhen I got a FreeBSD machine, I started with an all-macho X desktop:
Sawfish and nothing else, all applications started by middle-click. After
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redcountess, I realised that the shiny and helpful is
actually very nice to use and saves a lot of arse pain.
Lately I've been annoyed at how slow Firefox and Thunderbird seem to be getting. Literally several seconds to open a window. Odd pauses typing URLs. It's a PII-450 with 640MB memory, it should be doing a lot better.
So last night I closed KDE and put sawfish back in .xinitrc. And I had a revelatory geek experience: KDE makes your system really fucking slow. WELL DUH. Firefox now screams, Thunderbird is actually not so slow I want to kill it with an axe despite its l33t spamgobbling p0w3rz.
So much for the shiny.
(Don't follow up talking about your favourite window manager. Window managers are for pooftahs. You should size your initial xterm in your .xinitrc and each new application using -geometry.)
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Date: 2004-08-03 05:17 am (UTC)The Sun Java plugin should work just fine with it, pretty much out-the-box. Sun are very Mozilla- and Firefox-aware ...
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Date: 2004-06-09 07:06 am (UTC)It's not *that* bad, but it is noticable compared with IE. I think the Fotopic problem is a too efficient AV program (I might play around with the PC when I get the chance).
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Date: 2004-06-09 07:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-09 07:45 am (UTC)I might have a play around and see what I can find... it'll probably end up being something rather simple no doubt!
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Date: 2004-06-09 04:13 am (UTC)I tried going back to my setup from the Ericsson days -- fvwm2 configured with no window decorations beyond borders, everything bound to key combinations -- but having spent so long using a reasonably *good* UI on top of a UNIX it just didn't feel right.
Firefox does pretty well on OS X these days, BTW.
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Date: 2004-06-09 04:15 am (UTC)At some stage I'll be moving to the latest FreeBSD 5.x - this is 4.6.2 with KDE 3.0.0, and I'm amazed a .0.0 works this well. I expect tremendous improvements.
I must say, I could go a TiBook.
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Date: 2004-06-09 04:19 am (UTC)As to lapdogs, even the current iBooks are pretty well-specced -- they're all G4s now. And they're rugged little bastards, too. Were I in the market and not looking at the penis-substitute AlBook an iBook is where I'd go.
If I had a TiBook I'd be worrying about scratching or dropping it. When I had an iBook, well, I don't recall worrying about much of anything.
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Date: 2004-06-09 06:27 am (UTC)R e a l l y ?
*grins*
Still an amusing toy, though.
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