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Date:      Sun, 20 May 2007 19:24:37 -0400
From:      Dave Grochowski <malus.x@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New installation of xorg 7.2 from ports
Message-ID:  <4650D8B5.1070309@students.rowan.edu>
In-Reply-To: <11167f520705201256g5b8fb11au72795dc5e0119560@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey,

Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> If I was to install a clean system using the i386 May 6.2-STABLE  and
> then did a portsnap would xorg-7.2 build? has beryl been merged yet?
> does anyone know?
>
> Sam Fourman Jr.
>
> On 5/20/07, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:14:12PM +0200, Olivier wrote:
>> >
>> > ----- "Florent Thoumie" <flz@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > A fix should be committed to BSD.usr.dist to create the symlink, but
>> > > this won't solve the problem until people upgrade world.
>> >
>> > But why should a "clean" system have a /usr/X11R6 at all ?
>>
>> Because the directory is still created by default on clean
>> installations.  Some catch-up in src is needed; in the meantime just
>> help it out by removing that directory and symlinking yourself.
>>
>> Kris
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Try x11-wm/beryl. Also, if you use Gnome, you can run x11-wm/heliodor if 
you prefer the metacity themes. I don't think there is an aquamarine 
port yet for the KDE users, though that should be easy to accommodate for.

Sincerely,
Dave Grochowski



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