On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:00:02AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > On 24/07/2015 23:48, James Powell wrote: > >CDE is a classic UNIX desktop, but it has long been since viable for > >modern usages. > > > >Xfce, in truth, was a modern replacement for it using Xforms since Motif > >was, at the time, under a different license. It bears the same classic > >layout minus some differences.
Xfce used to resemble CDE, yes. But it doesn't have a strong resemblence now. Of the two, I prefer CDE. > >However, last I had heard CDE was still unstable with some operations. > > My first thought on reading this was that sounds just like CDE used to be! > (Being a CDE user back in the mid-late '90s.) Heh. Sounds about right, given what I've read. But there were several recent patches that fixed longstanding bugs, and it's pretty reliable in my own experience. > I used to really like CDE, and am very tempted to give it a try out sometime > soon. You'd probably want to build it from git, rather than the tarball. Most of the commits are fixes, with a little bit of porting. Refer to their wiki for (rather old) directions. (http://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/LinuxBuild/) Some deviations: - As of Jessie, motif is in main, thus the use of "non-free" is outdated. - On 32-bit platforms only, you can use tirpc instead of glibc RPC; this allows using rpcbind without the "-i" option. On 64-bit systems, using tirpc breaks tooltalk. - In Jessie, I stumbled across an issue with openbsd-inetd shortly after switching to Devuan, so I'm not quite sure about how to report it: the check for RPC support in the init script uses the wrong path. I usually start it via the sysvinit script, though that isn't quite perfect. (It probably doesn't do quite enough error checking, and I think the pgrep invocation may be wrong. Also, I don't think it has a -pidfile option, though I could add that without too much work...adding -quiet was trivial.) HTH, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
