Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8
On Friday 11 December 2009 04:56:39 pm you wrote: Well, you now need to either select X during install or install it from ports after the installation. jerry I thought KDE4 would have caused a dependency on X, but I guess since there have been two choices, XFree and Xorg, you have to manually select one or the other. Thanks for the answer. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8
On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (free...@insightbb.com) wrote: I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist. It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2p5 partition. Now it complains that xinit doesn't exist. Why didn't these two get laid-down by the install?? The dependencies for KDE4 probably don't go as far as requiring an X server. Some machines run headless and so don't require an X server (what startx runs) to be installed to run X apps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:37:37 -0500, Steven Friedrich free...@insightbb.com wrote: I thought KDE4 would have caused a dependency on X, but I guess since there have been two choices, XFree and Xorg, you have to manually select one or the other. It is possible to run XFree86 - the X that just works (TM)? I'm not sure many programs will run on it, because the dependencies refer to xorg-stuff-1.2.3... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8
2009/12/12 andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com: On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (free...@insightbb.com) wrote: I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist. It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2p5 partition. Now it complains that xinit doesn't exist. Why didn't these two get laid-down by the install?? The dependencies for KDE4 probably don't go as far as requiring an X server. Some machines run headless and so don't require an X server (what startx runs) to be installed to run X apps. Yeah, it'd be a _royal_ pain if KDE and GNOME depended on an X server. It'd defeat the whole client-server relationship! Sorry it's confusing for people who wouldn't use it like that Also, please don't use XFree86! It's defunct, and has an obnoxious licence. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
startx and xinit under FreeBSD8
I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist. It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2p5 partition. Now it complains that xinit doesn't exist. Why didn't these two get laid-down by the install?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: startx and xinit under FreeBSD8
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:57:06PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote: I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out. I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4. When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist. It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2p5 partition. Now it complains that xinit doesn't exist. Why didn't these two get laid-down by the install?? Well, you now need to either select X during install or install it from ports after the installation. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
