Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:45:01 -0500 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Experiences with CDE for FreeBSD Message-ID: <9610242345.AA10608@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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Forgive the cross-post to -current, but I am running CDE under -current and thought it might be relevant. I've been running AcceleratedX Common Desktop Environment for FreeBSD under FreeBSD-current for the last week or so. Supposedly it has been verified under FreeBSD, but I have had some problems with it and I'd post them (I did send them to Xinside in a separate mailing). o The install procedure does not allow installation to locations other than /usr/dt. Trying to make a link from /usr/dt to another location will not work, because the install scripts will overwrite the link. I started modifying the scrips, but found it was much easier to mount an unsed partition over /usr/dt and copy everything after the install and relink /usr/dt. This worked fine. I used a custom install and used a little over 50MB in /usr/dt. o The calendar application (dtcm) dumps core. I wonder if this could somehow be related to running -current? o The Screen lock and saver do not work (although the package xlockmore works just fine). I may have something misconfigured on my end because the CDE error log file shows: "Unable to lock display due to security restrictions." I've been all through the provided documentation without any findings. o The mail utility doesn't work. It wants some execution group (unnamed) to be set. I've tried making it suid root, guid wheel, and a few others, but I don't know what it wants to be. The mail utility does detect the presence of mail correctly (the little flag goes up in the icon window) so it is able read /var/mail/<user>. o This is a nit, but I was unable to figure out how to get the accelerated X server (which comes with CDE along with Motif) to have a faster key repeat rate. This was easily done under the XFree86 XF86Config file. It is annoyingly slow, as it is also under Sun Solaris (can't figure it out there either). Other than the above problems, everything else seems to be working just fine. It looks very professional and just like CDE on Solaris 2.5 - even the pretty login window. Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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