Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT)
From: Olivier Nicole
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: X client without X server
Hi,
Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an
X server?
On all my sys
Anton,
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT)
> From: Olivier Nicole
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: X client without X server
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to install an X
I install it (on a machine that it used to work on until I had to
reinstall FB) and there is none of the normal command line tools and
when I attempt to open a jnlp file in ff (21.0) java/icetea-web (1.4)
it goes into an infinite loop of opening new blank tabs the site
in question works perfect
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> $ pkg info -xd xterm
> xterm-293:
> xproto-7.0.24
> xextproto-7.2.1
> renderproto-0.11.1
> printproto-1.0.5
> libxcb-1.9.1
> libXrender-0.9.8
> libXpm-3.5.10
> libXp-
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> $ pkg info -xd xterm
>> xterm-293:
>> xproto-7.0.24
>> xextproto-7.2.1
>> renderproto-0.11.1
>> printproto-1.0.5
>> libxcb-1.9.1
>>
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:07:11 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server.
> >
> > But one of its dependencies might.
>
> That m
From olivier2...@gmail.com Wed Jul 3 13:09:25 2013
Anton,
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht
wrote:
> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 10:55:48 +0700 (ICT)
> From: Olivier Nicole
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
From: Anton Shterenlikht
To: me...@bristol.ac.uk; olivier2...@gmail.com
Cc: o...@cs.ait.ac.th; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: X client without X server
From olivier2...@gmail.com Wed Jul 3 13:09:25 20
On Jul 2, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to install an X client without automatically install an
> X server?
>
> On all my systems, I throw xterm and emacs, as the primary tools I use
> for management, but the display is always remote, I never, ever, run X
> on
Hello,
It is usually not about disk space (though that is also not exactly free and
unlimited either), but about compilation/update delays, ease of management,
additional security risks, additional ways to fail for the system as a
whole, etc.
Not to mention simple elegance.
Best wishes
Eugen
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 08:26:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Tillman
Subject: Re: X client without X server
xterm may not require it [xorg-server],
but one of xterm's dependencies may.
This is simply not true.
xterm does not require xorg-server.
I know because f
On 07/03/13 16:26, Bill Tillman wrote:
[Vast snip.]
Just my 2¢ worth on this. Sure, one always wants to keep overhead
> low. But the days of limited RAM, small hard drives, etc...are long
> since behind us. I remember in 1994 when and IT consultant came in
> and built a Novell server for us wit
Hi,
> Just my 2¢ worth on this. Sure, one always wants to keep overhead low. But
> the days of limited RAM, small hard drives, etc...are long since behind us.
My concern is when portupgrade -a. The more ports on the system, the
more likely the upgrade will fail. So I'd prefer to have as little
un
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