From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 6 17:51:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7D34B16A41C for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:51:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2996A43D53 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:51:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nkinkade@fastmail.fm) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4EA0C9B8B4; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:51:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Sasl-enc: Dccbqv9+ZZw0fKzq56nvPmc7TXfL2Vwyb8Ojw7QLhmzd 1118080268 Received: from gentoo-npk.bmp.ub (unknown [206.27.244.136]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696D557035A; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:51:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nkinkade by gentoo-npk.bmp.ub with local (Exim 4.21) id 1DfLkg-0005d6-6K; Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:51:06 -0600 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:51:06 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20050606175106.GD21368@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mail-Followup-To: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions References: <20050605215814.GA57617@thought.org> <20050606151005.GA8361@lothlorien.nagual.st> <20050606161138.GA60810@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T7mxYSe680VjQnyC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050606161138.GA60810@thought.org> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3FDF A406 B149 3959 A8CB C5A9 3B46 4812 D852 7E49 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: KDE apps X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nathan Kinkade List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:51:15 -0000 --T7mxYSe680VjQnyC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:11:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:10:05PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > On 05 Jun Gary Kline wrote: > > > Anybody know a means of using some of the more nifty KDE=20 > > > tools--say, kdict--without using Gnome or KDE? > >=20 > > Run a window manager (fvwm2?) ;-) > >=20 > > The needed (kde) libs always need to be installed though. > >=20 >=20 > I'm still using ctwm; it was just up-rev'd to v 3.7=20 > so it's not totally dead! in my opinion, ctwm can be=20 > hand-tweaked to any degree. Re kde, I think I have=20 > everything installed to run it as another user. =20 > This is installed: /var/db/pkg/kdelibs-3.4.0_2 and > the Gnome tools run. KDE, nope. =20 >=20 > (?) >=20 > gary One thing I have found about attempting to run KDE apps when using another wm is that KDE apps will usually launch up several other KDE related processes (kdeinit, etc.) that eat up a lot of memory. I once just renamed kdeinit to something like kdeinit.off so that I could use ther tabbed X terminal program called konsole. konsole gave some errors on launch, but otherwise mostly worked, though some functionality was working. In short, it seemed to me that if one is going to run a bunch of KDE apps they are probably best off to just run KDE wm, too. Nathan --T7mxYSe680VjQnyC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCpI0KO0ZIEthSfkkRAtswAJ45fdM5K0QwYxrlW92mADZ7bbbsTwCghf3c 63armkkbaS5VOF6rsppuomM= =g6NV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T7mxYSe680VjQnyC--