From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 16:35:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34CDB37B616 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by manatee.mammalia.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 55F1611CEE3; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:35:47 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Gnome 1.2 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000821163547.A4877@mammalia.org> References: <20000817123853.14134.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com> <399BEB55.7631BE6E@mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:17:32PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And Garance A Drosihn spoke: > At 9:40 AM -0400 8/17/00, Andresen,Jason R. wrote: > >Paul Jansen wrote: > > > > > > I have just installed Xfree 4.0.1 on my FreeBSD 4.0 > > > system. I want to install a nice Window Manager, and > > > I thought I'd have a look at Gnome. I was just > > > reading the 'requires' part in the ports collection > > > and it looks like I have to install like 42 or so > > > other packages before I can get gnome to work. Is > > > this true, or can I leave some out? Is there a script > > > that I can run that will install the lot including all > > > the dependencies? > > > >Good news for you: the 'requires' parts in the ports field > >are ports-builder internal information, you don't have to > >worry about them. Just cd to the gnome ports directory > >type make and it will take care of installing all of those > >dependancies itself. > > If all I want is a window manager, then it is not necessarily > "good news" that gnome automatically builds all those ports. > All I am looking for is something a little nicer looking than > twm, with multiple rooms (or whatever they'd be called in the > land of gnome). That does not mean I want to build every > application which references any gnome library, just so the > window manager can put all of those things in it's menus. > > I am not sure what a good solution would be, and whatever it > is I imagine it would require a fair amount of work to sort > out. I'm just saying that "building everything" is not > necessarily a GoodThing. Gnome is not a window manager, in fact it doesn't even come with one. The window manager exists independently, and when installing Gnome, you can choose between a number of different ones to use. To install Gnome, you may be able to get away with reducing a few of the dependencies, but expect it to install half the ports collection even then. Since it doesn't sound like that's what you want, may I suggest icewm (cd /usr/ports/x11/icewm; make install). It looks nice, supports multiple desktops, has a taskbar with a menu. It's very fast and lightweight. Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message