Aha !  The voice of experience !

(caution, next line not a gnustep question)
How do I get XFCE on there ?  Do I just type in pkg install XFCE ...or is
there more to it than that ? (!!)

Again, thanks.

J.

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 4:24 AM, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5 Jul 2016, at 06:22, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > OK, that worked and I can compile GNUStep apps now - BUT...the apps
> don't have a menu bar on top of them !!  What have I forgotten to install ?
>
> That’s normal for GNUstep.  The default menu style is NeXT-like.  If you
> want in-window menu bars, then you should run:
>
> $ defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSMenuInterfaceStyle
> NSWindows95InterfaceStyle
>
> >
> > This is on PC-BSD 11.0 CURRENT, which, I know, is not a release version.
> >
> > I'll check the libraries and try to figure it out.  Right now, for
> example the GoMoku program or GPuzzle, the windows are stuck in the upper
> left corner of my desktop with no way to move them !  Maybe something I
> need to fix in Resources ?
>
> This sounds like a problem interacting with the window manager.  With most
> window managers you can hold alt and drag a window if it appears off the
> screen. I’ve had issues with Lumina (the PC-BSD DE) with a number of apps
> (in particular, it doesn’t tell apps that it’s using the top bit of the
> screen for its own launcher, so you end up with the title bar hidden) so I
> tend to use XFCE on FreeBSD.
>
> David
>
>
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