GUI-related questions.
Hi, Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at least three different sized xterms. Is there a way of having various sized terms in Gnome andor KDE? Another issue is that somehow I lost libintl.so.5. What builds this library? I borrowed it from another server; it was in one of the compat libs, IIRC. The CD's I installed 5.2 from have KDE-3.1.4; for some reason the latest rev of KDE refuses to upgrade. I was using portupgrade, remotely. Any idea why 3.2.0 won't install? thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI-related questions.
Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at least three different sized xterms. Is there a way of having various sized terms in Gnome andor KDE? Well, I suppose the simplest way would be to continue using the same hand-coded xterm configurations that you are using now. If you want to use konsole or gnome-terminal, those can certainly be resized. I think they understand the same flags xterm uses. KDE will also remember the layout of your setup so that you do not need to rearrange things the next time you log in. (gnome may do that too... I am not familiar with it) Another issue is that somehow I lost libintl.so.5. What builds this library? I borrowed it from another server; it was in one of the compat libs, IIRC. devel/gettext I found it like this ... cd /var/db/pkg grep -r libintl * although there may be better ways to do that :o) The CD's I installed 5.2 from have KDE-3.1.4; for some reason the latest rev of KDE refuses to upgrade. I was using portupgrade, remotely. Any idea why 3.2.0 won't install? What was your process? Did you read this ... http://freebsd.kde.org/instructions.php ? _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI-related questions.
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:51:41 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at least three different sized xterms. Is there a way of having various sized terms in Gnome andor KDE? Same as under any other window manager... put the mouse over the window, hold down alt, right-click and drag till you like it. In Xterm you can easily change the font size by holding down control and right clicking on it. Another issue is that somehow I lost libintl.so.5. What builds this library? I borrowed it from another server; it was in one of the compat libs, IIRC. Long Story short... this happens when the gettext got updated... I am guessing you cvsuped and then did a portupgrade -a or something... You can fix this quickly by finding the libintl.so.6, iirc the newest one, and create a sym link pointing to it from libintl.so.5... or you could recompile all apps that depend on it by doing a portupgrade -rRf gettext... The CD's I installed 5.2 from have KDE-3.1.4; for some reason the latest rev of KDE refuses to upgrade. I was using portupgrade, remotely. Any idea why 3.2.0 won't install? What is the error? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI-related questions.
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:29:41PM -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:51:41 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at least three different sized xterms. Is there a way of having various sized terms in Gnome andor KDE? Same as under any other window manager... put the mouse over the window, hold down alt, right-click and drag till you like it. In Xterm you can easily change the font size by holding down control and right clicking on it. Thanks. KDE|Gnome allow various-sized terms and fonts; it's seriously kool. Probably coded/saved in XML somewhere. Another issue is that somehow I lost libintl.so.5. What builds this library? I borrowed it from another server; it was in one of the compat libs, IIRC. Long Story short... this happens when the gettext got updated... I am guessing you cvsuped and then did a portupgrade -a or something... You can fix this quickly by finding the libintl.so.6, iirc the newest one, and create a sym link pointing to it from libintl.so.5... or you could recompile all apps that depend on it by doing a portupgrade -rRf gettext... X wouldn't come up without this library. Both startx and xdm blew up whereas a week earlier (after having scp'd linintl.so.5) startx brought up Gnome as root just fine. (I'm learning as I play around... .) The CD's I installed 5.2 from have KDE-3.1.4; for some reason the latest rev of KDE refuses to upgrade. I was using portupgrade, remotely. Any idea why 3.2.0 won't install? What is the error? The err stated that I should pkg_delete 3.1.4 first; that KDE-3.2.0 was trying to install in the same place. A few hours ago I tried pkg_add to install this. It found kde but not kde3. Using mozilla I found there was no Package under KDE3. (I can see myself wasting dozens of hours playing around with all these toys... Got to watch it :) gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI-related questions.
On Friday 05 March 2004 07:40 pm, Gary Kline wrote: The err stated that I should pkg_delete 3.1.4 first; that KDE-3.2.0 was trying to install in the same place. A few hours ago I tried pkg_add to install this. It found kde but not kde3. Using mozilla I found there was no Package under KDE3. (I can see myself wasting dozens of hours playing around with all these toys... Got to watch it :) gary In order to install KDE 3.2.0, you do indeed need to pkg_delete ALL (and that's the key) ALL related KDE libs. By typing /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -fuF /usr/local/sbin/portversion -vL= tmp you will pump the results to the file tmp. Read through that file and note ALL KDE libs. pkg_delete them all by hand, then install KDE. -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
