On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
Personally, I think that your time would be used better if you helped us
test and fix any issues with the AIX and HPUX port.
I have access to POWER hardware but only Power7 and older stuff (I have
some POWER6 and RS/6000 PPC hardware too).
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:
I agree with Jon. CDE has more important challenges to deal with in the
future than dtmail, starting with Wayland.
IMHO, the "retiring" idea keeps the code around for whoever might want to
unearth it and work on it, and it gets it out of the way o
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, Jon Trulson wrote:
I did it once for a customer using the alpine IMAP toolkit some years
ago.
I've worked with that same API. It ain't bad. There are others, too.
LibETpan works pretty well also. It's the same one Claws uses. I think it
already does SSL. If not, there is
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, Jon Trulson wrote:
I am not interested in maintaining a museum piece.
That is pragmatic an sensible, but could it be deprecated into a "classic"
or "hierloom" directory within the source tree and only allowed to emerge
when it'd be fixed by a loving and living maintainer.
Jon this whole situation with Solaris having it's own code base which
goes back to 1.x. I'm curious if that is why there are a lot of tools and
utils (mostly ones starting with "sd") which aren't part of the open
source version?
Ie.. they must have made those tools specifically for their v
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
I have Solaris 9 and 10 systems running. If you have the choice, look
at Solaris 9 rather than 10.
Thanks for the tip. I have access to SunOS 4.1.2 - Solaris 11.3 with every
major rev (even the rarely used stuff like Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7) and 2.
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Scot Jenkins wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something but if you just want shortcuts to launch
apps or events, you can just add them to ~/.dt/dtwmrc like so:
Thanks for that! I just built a fresh copy of CDE this morning and I'm
going to try out some of this info you passed on.
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Andrey ``Bass'' Shcheglov wrote:
Which files under `${HOME}/.dt` does `sdthotkey` modify?
Good question. I'll have to fire up a Solaris box and find out. As you
point out, it can't be rocket science to map out the hotkeys and there is
likely full documentation somewhere k
On Fri, 31 May 2019, Swift Griggs wrote:
There is a tool that comes with CDE on Solaris called 'sdtedit' which allows
sorry the tool is called "stdhotkey" not 'sdtedit' (which is some crap in
my head floating around from VMS, I think). Otherwise, the question i
There is a tool that comes with CDE on Solaris called 'sdtedit' which
allows you to customize and edit the CDE hot keys. I found this very
helpful as I'd already been acclimated to my custom keys in Fluxbox and
Windowmaker and I could just make them the same in CDE.
Is that something one ca
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, Danilo Pecher wrote:
The only fix I know of is substituting \\\" for a simple ?. That fixes
it for me.
Yay! When it's all committed I'd like to try it, too. Like you I have a
CDE-on-NetBSD rig I plan to keep eternally.
-Swift
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, Danilo Pecher via cdesktopenv-devel wrote:
Ah, that would explain it. The whole NetBSD configuration is ancient to
begin with. The imake config file still caters for oddities of NetBSD
1.1 (!!). I'll have a look into it.
Yes, it's a good hint. I can give it a try, too (on 8
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, Danilo Pecher wrote:
For the time being I'll conentrate on looking through the mess that is
the NetBSD build.
Thanks for your efforts, Danilo. I am also a NetBSD user. Like you, I was
able to build CDE in the 6.x days, but it has since fallen apart.
Personally, I'm sad t
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Christopher Turkel wrote:
I tried the sparky CDE package and they don?t set the hostname right so
the desktop applications menu from the menu barfs an error and doesn?t
work.
That was my experience, too. While I'm grateful to anyone for
pre-compiling, packaging, SPEC-file
Does anyone know of any OS distro that's got CDE setup in a "curated"
package? I had someone ask/show-interest in using CDE for a student
computer lab. They were asking for a "timeless" interface, and I showed
them CDE.
What I'm thinking of when I say curated is *ideally* (not demanding jus
On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Christopher Turkel wrote:
I see can see the political reasons for the move and software projects
have moved licenses for worse reasons. I'd like a BSD license of some
kind, I'd be in favor of it.
MIT, and BSD licenses are great. I won't harp on the ones I don't like as
th
On Fri, 28 Jul 2017, Douglas Carmichael wrote:
When I tried building/installing CDE 2.2.4 on FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE using
able to start CDE because the ttsession daemon would crash immediately
upon starting a desktop session.
Forgive me if you're already aware of this, but you need to run the
T
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Martin Etteldorf wrote:
> Sorry, I still haven't found the time to upgrade to 11.0, and I most
> likely won't have the time to do it before December. Kostya Berger
> reported the very same issue some months ago for NetBSD on this list.
> Maybe it's worth a try contacting him
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> I don't recall having problems with linking, so probably whatever we
> have in FreeBSD.cf should work for NetBSD as well?
I didn't even look, yet, but adding "-liconv" on this line:
#define CplusplusLibC -lm -lstdc++ -liconv
Seems to fi
I'm noticing that after a "make World" there are two things that seem
problematic. The first is that many of the applications aren't being built
due to the linking phase bombing out since it can't find libiconv (since
it's not using -liconv during the link/compile). Manually adding -liconv
doe
I'm putting the finishing touches on an rc-script for CDE under NetBSD.
It's written with NetBSD standards in mind. Is there any place for such a
thing under the CDE dist? I'd happily contribute it in whatever way is
easiest for folks to digest into the whole.
-Swift
This page:
https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/NetBSD/
has a comment (a true one):
"Some notes on NetBSD 7.0:
pkgsrc/shells/ast-ksh is broken. Install the binary package from the
NetBSD 6.0 repository via pkg_add"
He's referring to this issue:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users
patches in this go are just workaday maintenance stuff. Nothing
exciting.
-Swift
From 63da4a78cb57019aec51d014ec99127b8dc8bcac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Swift Griggs
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 10:47:57 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Patches from pkgsrc-WIP
---
cde/lib/DtHelp/HelpXlat
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Jon Trulson wrote:
> I usually do something like: [...]
Thanks for that. I'll definitely attempt to do the same. I've asked the
fellas who run pkgsrc-WIP to grant me git access. My intention is to:
1. Give you the patches in the proper format et al.
2. Pull the version of CD
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Jon Trulson wrote:
> I am guessing that they were not... I apply patches sent to the devel
> mailing list in git format-patch format. If they were never delivered
> to the ML, then they were never applied.
Gotcha. I'd be happy to mail in the patches. I just want to double ch
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> I am no expert with DtMail, but it seems to use ToolTalk to some extent.
> Use can issue low-level ToolTalk calls from the dtksh as well:
I'm ignorant. I read the docs just now and it looks like one could create
a ttdt communications endpoint. Then the
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> Did you try dtksh for some scripting?
I actually didn't know it existed as a scripting API. I'm looking again at
programs/dtksh/examples to get an idea of it's capabilities. It does lots
of cool stuff, pipes, workspace manager interactions, drawing, re
Do these patches look familiar?
patch-lib_DtHelp_HelpXlate.c
patch-programs_dtpdmd_manager.c
patch-programs_dtlogin_dm.c
patch-programs_dtprintinfo_libUI_MotifUI_Debug.c
patch-programs_dtlogin_dm.h
patch-programs_dtprintinfo_
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Myles Mc Manus wrote:
> As someone who uses CDE everyday, I really appreciate all the work that
> has been done to fix bugs and make the whole thing more stable. Some
> really outstanding work has been done, and I am very grateful for it.
It really surprised me to see both Mo
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
> I care. I'd love to see some new features added to CDE - if nothing
> else, to bring it up to speed with the rest of the world.
Cool! At least there are a few of us left. At my job, I support old
operating systems (Tru64, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, and very
Hello Folks,
I'm getting started with Motif coding. I've managed to get CDE compiled
on NetBSD 7 (what fun!) and I'm still at the 2nd "hello world" pushbutton
tutorial stage with my own coding. I'm passable with C, but new to Motif.
I'm currently reading "MOTIF Programming" by Marshall Brain.
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