Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:46:50 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Steven Friedrich <freebsd@insightbb.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8 Message-ID: <20091212174650.GA3084@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <200912111657.06299.freebsd@insightbb.com> References: <200912111657.06299.freebsd@insightbb.com>
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On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (freebsd@insightbb.com) wrote: > I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. > I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. > > When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist. > It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2p5 partition. > Now it complains that xinit doesn't exist. > > Why didn't these two get laid-down by the install?? The dependencies for KDE4 probably don't go as far as requiring an X server. Some machines run headless and so don't require an X server (what startx runs) to be installed to run X apps.
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