From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 3 10:53:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB0B2DDD for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivier2553@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-x229.google.com (mail-wi0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E261D04 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f169.google.com with SMTP id c10so6093295wiw.0 for ; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 03:53:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=D/6qpYuw5a6QQfRT1EHvzh8hnS5nDpfWdGnti5s8w1Y=; b=1E1qqX0VAfORRkodngwNYAhLDFle1heTqEsLSIf9nqK8Brqjt8kGF6blcrXU9khF45 7f2hvuAkM1HfH/8kEu47qPMd0chMTxceZdqrDKhsGBDg7v31rlqC6EVoYybLILIxKCVe lbrPJX/o8+s0ctUSehADCKb5UZBGNdMUaVItoQTgoJuiAWks+piKMg6MYx+5ch5KsxKq j+2QemvJ0JXTaumiANPWeH0IUYbg0GMSbNQ30OvxHxFpCoFDOlPP4tFfNyTCGNCJyCrQ 3lg4vohKaLnTvs1HATqfK87CAafrALihcbnjLkhdAF9ARskYNna55M/CAmGoC/koIvCG jTBw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.174.38 with SMTP id bp6mr138763wjc.83.1372848834715; Wed, 03 Jul 2013 03:53:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.2.242 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Jul 2013 03:53:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201307031047.r63AlGKU034012@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201307030355.r633tmGL019936@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <201307031047.r63AlGKU034012@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 17:53:54 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: X client without X server From: Olivier Nicole To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Olivier , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:53:55 -0000 Anton, On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT) > From: Olivier Nicole > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: X client without X server > > Hi, > > Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an > X server? > > On all my systems, I throw xterm and emacs, as the primary tools I use > for management, but the display is always remote, I never, ever, run X > on the machine, but still it install X server, fonts and a lot of > useless junk like xcalc. > > Is there a way to install xterm and only the libraries that are needed > to run xterm? > > TIA, > > Olivier > > I've been doing this for years. > What's the problem? > > Just install xterm, or whatever you need. > All the necessary libs will be pulled in, e.g.: > > $ pkg info -xd xterm > xterm-293: > xproto-7.0.24 > xextproto-7.2.1 > renderproto-0.11.1 > printproto-1.0.5 > libxcb-1.9.1 > libXrender-0.9.8 > libXpm-3.5.10 > libXp-1.0.2,1 > libXext-1.3.2,1 > libXdmcp-1.1.1 > libXau-1.0.8 > libX11-1.6.0,1 > libSM-1.2.1,1 > libICE-1.0.8,1 > kbproto-1.0.6 > libXt-1.1.4,1 > libXmu-1.1.1,1 > libXaw-1.0.11,2 > libXft-2.3.1 > fontconfig-2.9.0,1 > expat-2.0.1_2 > freetype2-2.4.12_1 > pkgconf-0.9.2_1 > pcre-8.33 > libpthread-stubs-0.3_3 > > Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server. But for some reason, xorg-server gets installed too. And tons of fonts, and ... It could be emacs, or cvsup, these are the 3 X Window clients I install. Best regards, Olivier