Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:47:46 -0500 From: "Martes G. W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: freebsd-mobile Digest, Vol 34, Issue 1
1) This question really belongs on FreeBSD-Questions, not -mobile (it's nice to post things to the correct list: reduces clutter and increases your chance of getting a useful answer).
2) You are more likely to get an answer if your subject line explains the general subject of the question. To save time, many people only read messages that sound like something they are interested in or can help with (I'm one of those - I read this one by accident).
Hello All.
Does anyone know how the applications are supposed to be accessed on
BSD? While using KDE I am able to access quite a few applications, but
the desktop is quite complex, and I decided to try gnome2.4, to see if I
could access the linux compatible stuff. It seems to me that the only
office/application stuff is the kde propriatary-ish apps. Nothing else
seems to be locatable. I have the compat stuff installed, so how am I
supposed to be able to access the other applications, since they don't
seem to be available for FreeBSD itself. I really would like to use
openoffice.org 1.1 or anything other than the kde stuff.
3) Have you installed other applications? If you haven't installed Open Office you won't have it. It can be installed from /usr/ports/editors/openoffice. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-productivity.html
Once you have installed it, you may or may not need to do something extra to get it to appear in the menu system of the desktop system you have selected (e.g. KDE, Gnome, etc.). You can run it from a command line in any case. To do this, open a console window (xterm, kterm, etc. -- in KDE it's the icon that looks like a terminal with a shell in front of it). Then enter the command "openoffice" and see what happens.
I would appreciate at least one response this time, if you guys would
not mind....
Thanks again.
I also strongly recommend that if you haven't done so already, you refer to the FreeBSD Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook. I think many of your questions will be answered there. There are several other web sites that also have good "how to" FreeBSD information, for instance, http://www.freebsddiary.org/
- Bob
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