Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:02:15 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_Mart=EDn_Moro?= <faust64@gmail.com> To: Fred Boatwright <fred@blakemfg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 question Message-ID: <AANLkTi=yScGE5XSNhq7dsX8g9=ZJ70HSewvXsUA1fOqM@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C646B03.701383F0@blakemfg.com> References: <4C641B08.E424A1A0@blakemfg.com> <4C64362A.3000202@njit.edu> <4C644E17.C9CFAAC9@blakemfg.com> <4C6456CD.50501@njit.edu> <4C646B03.701383F0@blakemfg.com>
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Fred Boatwright <fred@blakemfg.com> wrote= : > pkg_info | grep xinit doesn't return anything > then, you doesn't have installed xinit, and startx can't be here pkg_add -rv xinit and then, if it doesn't fail, try again: rehash which startx > rehash > which startx > startx: Command not found > > whereis X > X: /usr/local/bin/X > > pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X > pkg_which: Command not found > > Oliver: I used your porgle tool to find pkg_which and will install it > later. Porgle appears to be a very useful tool. > > I installed x11-servers/xorg-server but maybe should have installed Xorg > instead. However, from looking at the pkg-descr for xorg it looks like > it will install a huge amount of software that will not get used. I am > reluctant to do this. I have installed 8.0-RELEASE from the CD and I > want to run olvwm for a desktop. I have been using Solaris 2.6 with the > OpenWindows desktop for 12 years and consider it to be as close to > perfection as one can get. I am being forced, kicking and screaming, to > move to some other type of Unix on a PC and would like to continue using > OpenWindows. It is probably going to be an uphill battle to get olvwm > to work. Am I going to have to install xorg to get everything needed? > > Best regards, > Fred > > Tim Kellers wrote: > > > > Fred, > > > > From man startx(1): > > > > SEE ALSO > > xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5) > > > > Try: > > > > # whereis X > > > > If X is installed, it should return: > > > > # X: /usr/local/bin/X > > > > pkg_which if X is installed should return: > > > > # pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X > > > > xorg-server-1.7.5,1 > > > > If it doesn't, then the full X server isn't installed: > > > > Try: > > > > # whereis xorg > > > > xorg: /usr/ports/x11/xorg > > > > If xorg isn't installed, cd to: > > > > /usr/ports/x11/xorg > > > > and > > > > make config-recursive (If you add any options, run make > > config-recursive a second time after the shell prompt returns) > > > > and then > > > > make install clean > > > > HTH > > > > Tim Kellers > > > > On 08/12/10 15:40, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > > Hi Oliver and Tim, > > > > > > I installed xinit but startx still doesn't exist. whereis returns > > > nothing and man startx returns nothing. > > > > > > Fred > > > > > > Tim Kellers wrote: > > > > > >> /usr/ports/x11/xinit > > >> > > >> On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): > > >> > > >> beta# whereis startx > > >> > > >> startx: /usr/local/bin/startx /usr/local/man/man1/startx.1.gz > > >> > > >> beta# pkg_which /usr/local/bin/startx > > >> > > >> xinit-1.2.0 > > >> > > >> beta# whereis xinit > > >> > > >> xinit: /usr/local/bin/xinit /usr/local/man/man1/xinit.1.gz > > >> /usr/ports/x11/xinit > > >> > > >> I' m not certain about the p5/Perl TK questions, but in the file: > > >> /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-Tk/pkg-descr > > >> there is this description: > > >> > > >> This a re-port of a perl interface to Tk8.4 (John Ousterhout's > production > > >> release). > > >> > > >> Perl API is essentially the same as Tk800.025 but has not > > >> been verified as compliant. > > >> > > >> It also includes all the C code parts of Tix8.1.4 from SourceForge. > > >> The perl code corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully > implemented. > > >> > > >> This version (Tk804.025) is only likely to work with perl5.8+. > > >> > > >> Tim Kellers > > >> > > >> On 08/12/10 12:02, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hello, > > >>> > > >>> Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports > under > > >>> X11 > > >>> but I don't want to install all of them to find it. > > >>> > > >>> Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? > > >>> > > >>> Best regards, > > >>> > > >>> Fred > > >>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Samuel Mart=EDn Moro {EPITECH.} tek4 CamTrace S.A.S (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 1 All=E9e de la Venelle 92150 Suresnes FRANCE "Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ..." Xorg.conf(5)
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