From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 14:03:28 2004 Return-Path: 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 4A16616A4E0 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:03:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from BAY0-HMR03.adinternal.hotmail.com (bay0-hmr03.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.241.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2646243D31 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:03:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from missive@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com ([65.54.247.130]) by BAY0-HMR03.adinternal.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:03:28 -0800 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:03:27 -0800 Received: from 208.186.54.187 by by2fd.bay2.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 05 Mar 2004 22:03:21 GMT X-Originating-IP: [208.186.54.187] X-Originating-Email: [missive@hotmail.com] X-Sender: missive@hotmail.com From: "Lee Harr" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 22:03:21 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Mar 2004 22:03:27.0864 (UTC) FILETIME=[B0287780:01C402FD] Subject: Re: GUI-related questions. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 22:03:28 -0000 > Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try > Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by > CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces > configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at > least three different sized xterms. Is there a way of having > various sized terms in Gnome andor KDE? > Well, I suppose the simplest way would be to continue using the same hand-coded xterm configurations that you are using now. If you want to use konsole or gnome-terminal, those can certainly be resized. I think they understand the same flags xterm uses. KDE will also remember the layout of your setup so that you do not need to rearrange things the next time you log in. (gnome may do that too... I am not familiar with it) > Another issue is that somehow I lost libintl.so.5. What > builds this library? I borrowed it from another server; > it was in one of the compat libs, IIRC. > devel/gettext I found it like this ... cd /var/db/pkg grep -r libintl * although there may be better ways to do that :o) > The CD's I installed 5.2 from have KDE-3.1.4; for some reason > the latest rev of KDE refuses to upgrade. I was using > portupgrade, remotely. Any idea why 3.2.0 won't install? What was your process? Did you read this ... http://freebsd.kde.org/instructions.php ? _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus