[OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

[Jonathan Adams]

On our SunRays, we've run an "Atkins-gnome" script to turn off solid
window drag and other effects ... and we've had to be over zealous in
the firefox and thunderbird auto-config to stop them writing to and
from the disk constantly ...

most of our guys run Gnome nowadays, but some of our old timers still
use CDE (Solaris 10) ... once you get used to it, it is simple to
teach (OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird icons plus lock and logout
...)

On 4 January 2011 15:14, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:
>  I have not had issues with gnome on sunrays (and even KDE on a sunray 2) so
> I can only assume these will be fine. Much of the fancy features of any X
> windows system disappear under Xnewt anyway.  I notice no rendering problems
> with Gnome so I never bothered changing my current setup.  I run a fast
> machine though so I may be biased, although Gnome ran well under my old e450
> 8 years ago
>
> On 01/ 4/11 09:28 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>>
>> does anyone know how any of these (lxde, xfce, etc) fare on SunRays?
>>
>> On 4 January 2011 14:22, Ken Gunderson<kgunders at teamcool.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:21 +0000, Peter Tribble wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Gary Gendel<gary at genashor.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan,
>>>>>
>>>>> There are lightweight alternatives to Gnome available with a bit of
>>>>> work.
>>>>>  KDE is pretty close to Gnome in terms of weight.  I had used XFCE
>>>>> happily
>>>>> for awhile.  It is lightweight and snappy and didn't bring my laptop to
>>>>> it's
>>>>> knees.  It also has a CDE-like look and feel.
>>>>> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+xfce/
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it's not being actively supported
>>>>> or
>>>>> developed anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Xfce is really here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.xfce.org/
>>>>
>>>> and is very much under active development, with 4.8 just around the
>>>> corner
>>>> and pre-release versions of 4.8 currently available.
>>>>
>>>> I run the current 4.6.2 as my primary home desktop and have done for
>>>> some
>>>> considerable time - it works extremely well. I also try and make sure
>>>> that the
>>>> Xfce releases work on Solaris, and have added Solaris support to some of
>>>> the
>>>> applications and panel plugins.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, the number of Xfce developers is relatively small compared to
>>>> the big boys of GNOME and KDE, so I'm sure that more help (and more
>>>> users) would be welcomed.
>>>>
>>> Another up and coming lightweight desktop environment is LXDE:
>>>
>>> <http://lxde.org/>
>>>
>>>
>>> I've used Xfce off and on since pre Xfce4 days and would subjectively
>>> rate LXDE as significantly lighter - lightweight enough that my kids
>>> have a couple 700 MHz PII boxes running it. LXDE also uses my favorite
>>> window manager, OpenBox.  I don't think I've ever heard mention of an
>>> OpenSolaris/Indiana or Solaris port though.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ken Gunderson<kgunders at teamcool.net>
>>>
>>>
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