installing desktop environment on FreeBSDI was looking for lightweight desktop environment for my FreeBSD box, i found Xfce and LXDE The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment"
To run these on box you need to install mimimum X.Org server. use following commands to install minumal xorg server
cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg-minimal/
make install clean
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. To install Xfce 4, use following port `xfce4 4.8`, its a meta-port for installing Xfce
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4/
make install clean
LXDE, the 'Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment' is said to be one of the small, extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment.
to install LXDE use metaport `lxde-meta`
cd /usr/ports/x11/lxde-meta/
make install clean
Once installed need to add following lines into the .xinitrc file
to run Xfce
exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4
to run LXDE
exec startlxde
For further reading
X.Org Foundation : http://www.x.org/wiki/
Xfce : http://www.xfce.org/
LXDE : http://lxde.org/ |
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