Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:57:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Fred Boatwright <fred@blakemfg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 question Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008121854380.59274@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <4C646B03.701383F0@blakemfg.com> References: <4C641B08.E424A1A0@blakemfg.com> <4C64362A.3000202@njit.edu> <4C644E17.C9CFAAC9@blakemfg.com> <4C6456CD.50501@njit.edu> <4C646B03.701383F0@blakemfg.com>
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: [snip] > I installed x11-servers/xorg-server but maybe should have installed Xorg > instead. However, from looking at the pkg-descr for xorg it looks like > it will install a huge amount of software that will not get used. I am > reluctant to do this. I have installed 8.0-RELEASE from the CD and I > want to run olvwm for a desktop. I have been using Solaris 2.6 with the > OpenWindows desktop for 12 years and consider it to be as close to > perfection as one can get. I am being forced, kicking and screaming, to > move to some other type of Unix on a PC and would like to continue using > OpenWindows. It is probably going to be an uphill battle to get olvwm > to work. Am I going to have to install xorg to get everything needed? It really is the simplest way to get X working, and IMHO the least painful way to install xorg is to use the package. Without installing the xorg meta-port, you'd end up installing a lot of it by hand anyway. Come to think of it - since olvwm is a port (/usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm), I *guess* it would pull in all of xorg as a dependency anyway. I, too, took a long time to come around to the idea that it doesn't do any harm to have unused software lying around. Disk is cheap; life is short. Hope this helps. > Best regards, > Fred > > Tim Kellers wrote: >> >> Fred, >> >> From man startx(1): >> >> SEE ALSO >> xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5) >> >> Try: >> >> # whereis X >> >> If X is installed, it should return: >> >> # X: /usr/local/bin/X >> >> pkg_which if X is installed should return: >> >> # pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X >> >> xorg-server-1.7.5,1 >> >> If it doesn't, then the full X server isn't installed: >> >> Try: >> >> # whereis xorg >> >> xorg: /usr/ports/x11/xorg >> >> If xorg isn't installed, cd to: >> >> /usr/ports/x11/xorg >> >> and >> >> make config-recursive (If you add any options, run make >> config-recursive a second time after the shell prompt returns) >> >> and then >> >> make install clean >> >> HTH >> >> Tim Kellers >> >> On 08/12/10 15:40, Fred Boatwright wrote: >>> Hi Oliver and Tim, >>> >>> I installed xinit but startx still doesn't exist. whereis returns >>> nothing and man startx returns nothing. >>> >>> Fred >>> >>> Tim Kellers wrote: >>> >>>> /usr/ports/x11/xinit >>>> >>>> On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): >>>> >>>> beta# whereis startx >>>> >>>> startx: /usr/local/bin/startx /usr/local/man/man1/startx.1.gz >>>> >>>> beta# pkg_which /usr/local/bin/startx >>>> >>>> xinit-1.2.0 >>>> >>>> beta# whereis xinit >>>> >>>> xinit: /usr/local/bin/xinit /usr/local/man/man1/xinit.1.gz >>>> /usr/ports/x11/xinit >>>> >>>> I' m not certain about the p5/Perl TK questions, but in the file: >>>> /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-Tk/pkg-descr >>>> there is this description: >>>> >>>> This a re-port of a perl interface to Tk8.4 (John Ousterhout's production >>>> release). >>>> >>>> Perl API is essentially the same as Tk800.025 but has not >>>> been verified as compliant. >>>> >>>> It also includes all the C code parts of Tix8.1.4 from SourceForge. >>>> The perl code corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully implemented. >>>> >>>> This version (Tk804.025) is only likely to work with perl5.8+. >>>> >>>> Tim Kellers >>>> >>>> On 08/12/10 12:02, Fred Boatwright wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports under >>>>> X11 >>>>> but I don't want to install all of them to find it. >>>>> >>>>> Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> >>>>> Fred >>>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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