On 5 Jul 2016, at 13:09, James Pannozzi <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ? (!!)
I think the metapackage is called xfce4 (pkg ins xfce4). How you start using it depends on whether you’re using xdm, gdm, or something else. That’s more of a PC-BSD-specific question, but I think there’s something on their forum about how to do it. David > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
