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
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