-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Johnson wrote: >> Would like to ask 1 question, tho, right now. I didn't get kde working >> for the >> first while, because I wasn't aware of x11/kdebase4-workspace. It seems >> that >> nothing pulls that package in, as far as depends go, so when you start up >> what >> you think is kde4, you get whatever old kde you had. Whie this is a nice >> way to >> verify that my kde3 install still works with kde4 on FreeBSD, I really >> think >> that this port should be brought in from some dependency. Did I miss this >> somewhere, or is kdebase4-workspace really running sans depends-linkage? > > kdebase4 are are the basic apps (konqueror, etc). kdebase-runtime4 are > stuff that KDE apps need during runtime (icons, etc). Finally, > kdebase4-workspace is the actual desktop (window manager, etc). > > None of the apps depend on kdebase4-workspace, because none of them depend > on a specific desktop. But the kde4 meta-port does have it as a dependency > (if you didn't uncheck it). > >> Last question, a friend told me thjat when I started up KDE4, I would be >> impressed by the new pager, having a snazzy new 3D-ish desktop display. I >> can't >> see that yet, how to access that? > > You need compositing (window manager effects) turned on for this. The > actual pager applet sitting in the panel hasn't changed all that much, but > there are some cool effects for switching desktops.
You and Bartosz said the same thing, "compositing", actually, Bartosz said I would need a graphics driver capability for compositing. I'm not really sure what this is. I'm running here, on my FreeBSD-current box (with 4G of RAM), an EVGA (Nvidia lookalike), 8600GTS, using the nvidia driver in the Xorg X11. That's what my xorg.conf configures, isn't that the correct thing? I can't find anything about compositing in the KDE docs, but I don't think I've really got all those correctly installed yet. As Bartosz says, I might not end of liking all that extra eye candy, but I *do* at least want to see what it's all about. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknCfCgACgkQz62J6PPcoOkQ+wCeIY0hqMs47VZiDMBj6mKf/kIM e9IAn3whIRuf4wqNyUiYtfcO6545Ryo4 =uenS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
