Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:17:58 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: installing a window manager Message-ID: <44fwvie5zd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4CD185A0.1060805@nagual.nl> (Dick Hoogendijk's message of "Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:54:08 %2B0100") References: <4CD185A0.1060805@nagual.nl>
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Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> writes: > Up 'till now I had a server without X. I've a need however to be able > to graphically work on that server so I thought: I install > x11-servers/xorg.server and after that I build windowmaker (nice and > light). However, this does not seem to be enough to get X working. > > Can somebody tell me what to build (with portmaster) to get a minimal > X server station with windowmaker. > I run 8.1/amd64 with up2date ports. Building windowmaker should be enough. However, do you really need to run the X server on your server machine? Usually, what I do is just run the applications on the server, and display them on another machine. ssh makes this easy and secure.
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