From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 2 19:05:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED23016A41F for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:05:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39D443D45 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:05:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=grokwell.org) by smtpauth06.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1EBGrJ-0001v7-UO for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:05:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:06:00 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050902140600.0df66056@grokwell.org> In-Reply-To: <90056E03-651E-431A-9D87-5F89C5F6CCE7@cc.usu.edu> References: <90056E03-651E-431A-9D87-5F89C5F6CCE7@cc.usu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.11 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcaa3d38a2f2f6d5e99d1364b5e9641640350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. window managers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:05:55 -0000 On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0600 hal wrote: > For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the: > default window manager? > developer recommended window manager? > easiest to install? > > I am not trying to start a religious war here. > I am currently installing KDE from source and it > is taking forever. > > #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3 > # make > > Some of the packages needed cannot be found by the > make file. Google is great but some of the packages are > really hard to find. > > hal Is there a reason you're compiling KDE from source? KDE is included on the installation CD's. Using pkg_add, you can also install binary packages (and their dependencies) for releases and stable branches from the ftp sites. For example, to get KDE for the i386 architecture, 5- STABLE branch, root would execute: pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/kde-3.4.2.tbz (Beware wordwrap in emails.) Regards, Andrew Gould