Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:26:35 +0100 From: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kde4 install - no Xorg Message-ID: <20081129012635.GA1675@localhost.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <1227917428.3603.162.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <1227917428.3603.162.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:10:28AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > Funny thing happened to me on a new install... > > [snip] > > A day and a half later, the install is finished so I run kdm. Not found > so I run a find search and then run /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm. It comes up > saying it can't find and run the Xserver on display :0. What the?! > > So I run a search on pkg_version -v and find xorg is not installed- what > the?! Maybe I'm missing something here, but I thought installing kde4 > would install xorg (I'm pretty sure it has before if I remember right- > it has been a while, but I'm sure I'm not that daft) as it kinda needs > it to run and ports generally install dependencies. Has someone > forgotten this in the Makefile? > > Not trying to be picky, but I thought it might more sense and offer my > view :) > Well, I would say it is not a bug, it is a feature of X window system. I think that X libraries are there, it is X server missing. One can install all X applications on one machine (let's say, server) and X servers on any number of graphical terminals (yes, X servers are run on what is normally called a client). After that it is possible to point clients on the server to the right X server (via DISPLAY environment, for example). That way the application will be run on server displaying output and receiving input from the remote X server. (Yes the terminology is weird :) If you don't care about unnecessary components you can cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make intstall clean Hope, this explains something, Alexey.
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