Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-21 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:07 PM, John Marino dragonfly...@marino.st wrote: On 7/20/2012 20:53, Carsten Mattner wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell Complaining is important, but contributing platform support patches (if you have the skills) would possibly be a better

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-20 Thread Stéphane Russell
Pierre Abbat a écrit : On Thursday 19 July 2012 21:40:44 Stéphane Russell wrote: I finally got a PC to make myself a GUI workstation with DragonFly. I first tried Gnome, without success. There seem to be issues with GConf and HAL, and the console is not available to GDM. So I tried XDM along

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-20 Thread Stéphane Russell
Wojciech Puchar a écrit : despite of an error message at startup is working fine, as long as I'm not trying to configure it, since GConf is not working. just use windows manager like cwm or fvwm2+your own configuration. I for example use my 9 year old .fvwm2rc which results in cwm-alike

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-20 Thread John Marino
On 7/20/2012 17:12, Stéphane Russell wrote: Wojciech Puchar a écrit : despite of an error message at startup is working fine, as long as I'm not trying to configure it, since GConf is not working. just use windows manager like cwm or fvwm2+your own configuration. I for example use my 9 year

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-20 Thread Stéphane Russell
John Marino a écrit : On 7/20/2012 17:12, Stéphane Russell wrote: Wojciech Puchar a écrit : despite of an error message at startup is working fine, as long as I'm not trying to configure it, since GConf is not working. just use windows manager like cwm or fvwm2+your own configuration. I for

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-20 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell sruss...@prodigeinfo.qc.ca wrote: John Marino a écrit : On 7/20/2012 17:12, Stéphane Russell wrote: Wojciech Puchar a écrit : despite of an error message at startup is working fine, as long as I'm not trying to configure it, since GConf is

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-20 Thread John Marino
On 7/20/2012 20:53, Carsten Mattner wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell Complaining is important, but contributing platform support patches (if you have the skills) would possibly be a better choice, wouldn't it? Besides that statement also applying to yourself, the

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-20 Thread Stéphane Russell
Carsten Mattner a écrit : On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Stéphane Russell sruss...@prodigeinfo.qc.ca wrote: John Marino a écrit : On 7/20/2012 17:12, Stéphane Russell wrote: Wojciech Puchar a écrit : despite of an error message at startup is working fine, as long as I'm not trying to

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-19 Thread Stéphane Russell
Hi, Maybe we're not using the same pkgsrc version? I didn't upgraded from pkgsrc-2011Q4 since the beginning of 2012. I used this version to build my workstation, along with DragonFly v3.0.1-RELEASE. Theses versions where tested on my server, so I used them instead of trying the latest

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 19 July 2012 21:40:44 Stéphane Russell wrote: I finally got a PC to make myself a GUI workstation with DragonFly. I first tried Gnome, without success. There seem to be issues with GConf and HAL, and the console is not available to GDM. So I tried XDM along with a XFCE GUI and it

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-19 Thread Edward M
Justin Sherrill wrote: I just happened to read about a fix in pkgsrc-current for seamonkey. I don't know if this applies to the version you were trying to build. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2012/07/19/msg016746.html thanks for the info. different version, version i am trying

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-19 Thread David.Crosswell
On 20/07/12 13:40, Edward M wrote: Justin Sherrill wrote: I just happened to read about a fix in pkgsrc-current for seamonkey. I don't know if this applies to the version you were trying to build. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2012/07/19/msg016746.html thanks for the info.

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-19 Thread Edward M
Stéphane Russell wrote: Hi, Maybe we're not using the same pkgsrc version? I didn't upgraded from pkgsrc-2011Q4 since the beginning of 2012. I used this version to build my workstation, along with DragonFly v3.0.1-RELEASE. Theses versions where tested on my server, so I used them instead of

Re: DragonFly GUI desktop at work - not bad at all

2012-07-19 Thread Edward M
David.Crosswell wrote: If you are having trouble accessing GDM capability, I know that Debian have a package that attributes GDM capability to KDM. Might be worth looking at to see how it's put together. Regards, David. thanks for reply. I not using gdm to login if that is what you