Vince Hoang wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:27:35PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anybody know the best directory to open the gui window manager
xfce from a tar.gz file.
You mean install from source? Untar it and read the INSTALL file.
Or bail on the source package install and use a _supported_
package.
This Debian Linux version is "sarge". I am a FreeBSD person
and the file structure in "sarge" is not easy to figure out.
It is all *nix under the hood.
I think you are referring to the SysV layout of /etc. Order
Nemeth's _Linux Aministration Handbook_ and google for Linux's
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard while you wait for it to ship.
Like I don't want a gui boot up I want to start with a command
line.
Neither do I. `rm /etc/rc?.d/S???dm`
So I have finally, after reading the top complaints on
the Debian list, figured out how to start a gui under level 3
when you need to have it. I want to have a simple gui XFCE3,
not KDE and only XFCE4 is available on the apt-get.
Like in your prior question about XFCE3 on FreeBSD, skip it and
install XFCE4; this time via apt.
-Vince
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Hi Vince,
I tried xfce4 and do not like it. I can get xfce3 to work on FreeBSD
with the patch. All the icons are missing from 4 that we use in common
on all our boxes is another reason.
I havent done Linux for about 4 years and you are right the SysV is just
different enough to be confusing. There are now 2 layouts for FreeBSD 4
and 5 and they are somewhat diffrent from each other and I have coped
with that so I hope to survive this too.
I have the 3rd edition of that Administration Hand book and I'll see
what will refresh my memory from that. Thanks for the tip.
Aloha!
Al Plant -Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com
Supporting Open Source in computing with FreeBSD 4.9
"Failure only happens when you stop trying." - Omar Periu
