that’s whacked

switchin’ to xfce

Wednesday, Jul 27. 2005  –  Category: Computers, OpenSolaris

alright. i tried. i realy did. maybe JDS/Gnome on S10/x86 is faster/more stable. i dunno. but after having gnome-terminal hang on me and losing a build for like the 10th time, i give up.

pkg-get -i xfce4

yes. i switched my sparc workstation (a SunBlade 2000, so definitely not a shabby machine) to XFCE, and it’s so much snappier. i also switched back to good ‘ol xterm. i’m still a GNOME fan (running it on my laptop with FC3 right now), but it’s just slow on SPARC. nothing major, but little collective lags here and there that you don’t really notice until you try something faster.

that, and having all your gnome-terminals freeze on you just sucks. the whole one-process thing is not that hot when it hangs. (and yes, i know about –disable-factory, but then it takes like 3-5 seconds to start a new terminal, and that’s just lame).