Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:37:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KDE apps Message-ID: <20050606183732.GB61864@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050606175106.GD21368@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> References: <20050605215814.GA57617@thought.org> <20050606151005.GA8361@lothlorien.nagual.st> <20050606161138.GA60810@thought.org> <20050606175106.GD21368@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:51:06AM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:11:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:10:05PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > > On 05 Jun Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Anybody know a means of using some of the more nifty KDE > > > > tools--say, kdict--without using Gnome or KDE? > > > > > > Run a window manager (fvwm2?) ;-) > > > > > > The needed (kde) libs always need to be installed though. > > > > > > > I'm still using ctwm; it was just up-rev'd to v 3.7 > > so it's not totally dead! in my opinion, ctwm can be > > hand-tweaked to any degree. Re kde, I think I have > > everything installed to run it as another user. > > This is installed: /var/db/pkg/kdelibs-3.4.0_2 and > > the Gnome tools run. KDE, nope. > > > > (?) > > > > gary > > One thing I have found about attempting to run KDE apps when using > another wm is that KDE apps will usually launch up several other KDE > related processes (kdeinit, etc.) that eat up a lot of memory. I once > just renamed kdeinit to something like kdeinit.off so that I could use > ther tabbed X terminal program called konsole. konsole gave some errors > on launch, but otherwise mostly worked, though some functionality was > working. In short, it seemed to me that if one is going to run a bunch > of KDE apps they are probably best off to just run KDE wm, too. > > Nathan konsole is another KDE app that I like since it allows me more flexibility that std xterm. Given my druthers, I would use Gnome over KDE -- if I had only those choices. I suppose it boils down to one's preference of basically CLI or GUI. thanks! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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