Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:50:56 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "freebsd@edvax.de" <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Setting up a minimal KDE Message-ID: <58ED1780.3010603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB1200B99E21030191887AC413F6000@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB1200B99E21030191887AC413F6000@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > On my tertiary box, I was facing multiple problems with FreeBSD 11 > Release. Rather than fix each one, I decided to try a new, daring > approach - a minimal KDE atop FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT r316508. > > Comments, suggestions, tips and experimentation requests are open to > this venture. > > I installed FreeBSD CURRENT and then installed kde via 'pkg install > kde'. After kde installation was over, I realized that I was running > against my original aspiration of a minimal KDE. So I did the following > to remove KDE : > > pkg delete -R kde > pkg autoremove > > Then I installed lightweight KDE using : > > pkg install kde-baseapps kde-workspace kde-runtime > > The above setup has the following components built-in : konsole, kate, > kdm. It was missing okular, k3b and kolourpaint, but these easily be > installed via pkg. > > I now have a fully functional KDE and a box that, despite being CURRENT, > works well. There are glitches, however. If anyone has tips to help > resolve the glitches, it shall lead to the perfect KDE setup : > > 1) This is the more serious glitch. Taskbar icons in the KDE panel, for > some reason I cannot guess why, are rendered horribly. Fonts everywhere > else are pretty much the same as before, but iconified taskbar fonts in > the panel are very, very ugly. > > 2) Because my network interface is statically configured, I want to turn > off dhclient entirely, so that it does not work on each reboot > automatically. DHCPDISCOVER packets cost me about a minute on system > start-up. I have tried putting the following in /etc/rc.conf, but this > does not seem to have any effect : 'dhcpd_enabled=NO"'. > > 3) I can't figure out how to remove nepomuk-core. 'pkg delete > nepomuk-core' says it would also lead to removal of kde-baseapps, which > would obviously be a very bad idea. > > Thanks for any help. If anyone has experimentation requests with FreeBSD > CURRENT and/or KDE, please feel free to ping me. > Can't help you with items 1 & 3, but item 2 is an easy one to fix. In your rc.conf file you must have a statement something this; ifconfig_rl0="DHCP" where rl0 is the interface facing the public internet. Remove it or comment it out
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