Error messages when booting up machine and starting KDE

2013-10-06 Thread Carmel
I have observed these messages being written to the system log when initially booting up the machine and then starting KDE. Oct 6 08:16:09 scorpio dbus[5896]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 6 08:16:09 scorpio dbus[5896]: [system

Re: [kde-freebsd] kde3 maintainer contact

2013-03-08 Thread Max Brazhnikov
them? There isn't one. There is a k...@freebsd.org mailing list, but it's listed as maintaining kde4, not kde3. KDE 3 ports are not maintained. You can use general ports@ mailist, CCing to k...@freebsd.org won't hurt, but not expect much response. Max

Re: [kde-freebsd] tmux and konsole characters

2013-02-03 Thread Schaich Alonso
On 2013-02-03, 07:51, Andre Goree wrote: I'm having an issue with tmux on certain ssh connections. When I connect to my freebsd server's tmux session that has multiple panes in one window, everything looks fine. However, when I connect to my linux box, I get this weird character [1] instead

Re: [kde-freebsd] tmux and konsole characters

2013-02-03 Thread Andre Goree
On 02/03/13 08:06, Schaich Alonso wrote: On 2013-02-03, 07:51, Andre Goree wrote: I'm having an issue with tmux on certain ssh connections. When I connect to my freebsd server's tmux session that has multiple panes in one window, everything looks fine. However, when I connect to my linux

Re: [kde-freebsd] tmux and konsole characters

2013-02-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:54:16 -0500, Andre Goree wrote: On a related note, I guess I can set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in my .bashrc and have that as my default, no? As far as I remember, login.conf is the file to set this, but you can basically set environmental variables wherever you want. For example,

Re: [kde-freebsd] tmux and konsole characters

2013-02-03 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:54:16 -0500 Andre Goree an...@drenet.info wrote: Thanks! That was it...I opened a new konsole window, set the encoding to UTF-8 (which my arch linux box is using) and the lines show up fine. On a related note, I guess I can set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in my .bashrc and have

Re: [kde-freebsd] ports, area51

2013-02-03 Thread Olivier Smedts
Hi, 2013/2/3 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com: Hi! I have installed KDE 4.9.5 and Calligra 2.5.5 from area51. I am not sure how is working: I use portsnap which update ports and KDE 4.9.5 ports are merged. Last time I saw many update for KDE 4.8.4 which update KDE 4.9.5 ports and so on. Does anyone

Re: [kde-freebsd] ports, area51

2013-02-03 Thread ajtiM
On Sunday 03 February 2013 23:40:46 Olivier Smedts wrote: Hi, 2013/2/3 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com: Hi! I have installed KDE 4.9.5 and Calligra 2.5.5 from area51. I am not sure how is working: I use portsnap which update ports and KDE 4.9.5 ports are merged. Last time I saw many update

KDE Mouse Themes

2013-01-27 Thread Carmel
I have KDE version 4.8.4 (4.8.4) installed on a FreeBSD-8.3 system. I have tried reading through the KDE documentation; however, I cannot find the setting on my system to change the mouse theme(s). According to the KDE documentation, the settings tab that should exist under settings does

Re: KDE Mouse Themes

2013-01-27 Thread ajtiM
On Sunday 27 January 2013 07:26:59 Carmel wrote: I have KDE version 4.8.4 (4.8.4) installed on a FreeBSD-8.3 system. I have tried reading through the KDE documentation; however, I cannot find the setting on my system to change the mouse theme(s). According to the KDE documentation

Re: KDE Mouse Themes

2013-01-27 Thread Carmel
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:09:10 -0600 ajtiM articulated: Do you have: System Settings - Input Devices - and there are Keyboard, Mouse and Remote control. Yes, and there is suppose to be a themes setting according to the KDE documentation; however, there is none. I have checked under every item

Re: KDE Mouse Themes

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 27 Jan 2013 14:47:11 Carmel wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:09:10 -0600 ajtiM articulated: Do you have: System Settings - Input Devices - and there are Keyboard, Mouse and Remote control. Yes, and there is suppose to be a themes setting according to the KDE documentation

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Georg Reilinger
...@yahoo.de CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Gesendet: 5:24 Freitag, 18.Januar 2013 Betreff: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT), Georg Reilinger wrote: As far as I know, FreeBSD has

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT) Georg Reilinger wrote: As a consequence, I can see myself do two possible things, to have a system running with KDE 3.5 once again: 1. Go back to an older release of FreeBSD and install KDE 3.5 from the that's pointless 2. To be honest, I

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-18 Thread Mike Clarke
to incompatibility with some recently upgraded dependencies and I've finally, and somewhat reluctantly, switched to KDE 4.8. It's certainly more bloated than 3.5 but after getting rid of some unwanted eye candy it's not as bad as I expected, certainly better than last time I tried it out about a year ago

FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Georg Reilinger
Hi everybody, My issue is the following: As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in assuming this? I am currently running a live version of FreeBSD 8.2 with KDE 4.8. The thing here

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Some decisions from upstream are a PITA. I'm from Linux, it's more up-to-date than FreeBSD. On Linux I switched from KDE 3 to GNOME 2, when KDE 4 was introduced and from GNOME 2 to Xfce, when GNOME 3 was introduced. There are forks of GNOME 2, but I guess there's no fork of KDE 3. Some

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Georg Reilinger
Von: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com An: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Gesendet: 2:37 Freitag, 18.Januar 2013 Betreff: Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD -- Some decisions from

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT) Georg Reilinger georgreilin...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi everybody, My issue is the following: As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:06:15 +0100, Georg Reilinger georgreilin...@yahoo.de wrote: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ Oops, I've forgotten that there is that fork. However, I suspect that KDE and GNOME forks will suffer from Qt and GTK dependencies, resp. the manpower (coders and user base

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT), Georg Reilinger wrote: As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. As for other desktop environments, yes. Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in assuming this? I think KDE 3 is still

[solved] KDE trouble, perhaps related to display wizard usage

2012-12-14 Thread Mardorf Ralf
By deleting ~/.kde4  the issues were fixed and I got the wanted CRT frequencies by manually editing xorg.conf. OT: IIUC it's possible to backup a running FreeBSD, by using the L switch and by running the following commands, my FreeBSD install is completely backuped. Is this right?

KDE trouble, perhaps related to display wizard usage

2012-12-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) the KDE 4 desktop does cause issues, since I set up the panel and then booted with display wizard enabled, on PC-BSD 8.2 64-bit. The last panel I add often isn't visible and accessible, but the first panel did work before I restarted with display wizard enabled. I add several panels

Re: KDE trouble, perhaps related to display wizard usage

2012-12-13 Thread Michael Powell
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) the KDE 4 desktop does cause issues, since I set up the panel and then booted with display wizard enabled, on PC-BSD 8.2 64-bit. The last panel I add often isn't visible and accessible, but the first panel did work before I restarted with display wizard enabled

Re: KDE trouble, perhaps related to display wizard usage

2012-12-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
on KDE, to get a panel back, that is always accessible. Perhaps KDE gets broken, when I edited the panel settings, buy using the correlated GUI. Regards, Ralf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: KDE trouble, perhaps related to display wizard usage

2012-12-13 Thread Michael Powell
want to be able to use GUIs on KDE, to get a panel back, that is always accessible. Perhaps KDE gets broken, when I edited the panel settings, buy using the correlated GUI. OK - in spite of X supposedly being capable of true auto-configure these days I still use a hand-crafted xorg.conf to get

Problems after updating KDE

2011-10-19 Thread Carmel
I have had numerous problems after updating to the latest KDE version. For starters, I lost my desktop and only had a blank (black) screen when starting up. I did manage to figure out how to correct that, but numerous other problems exist. For starters: 1) The (ALT)+(TAB) key no longer works

Re: Problems after updating KDE

2011-10-19 Thread Johan Hendriks
Carmel schreef: I have had numerous problems after updating to the latest KDE version. For starters, I lost my desktop and only had a blank (black) screen when starting up. I did manage to figure out how to correct that, but numerous other problems exist. For starters: 1) The (ALT)+(TAB) key

Re: Problems after updating KDE

2011-10-19 Thread Johan Hendriks
Johan Hendriks schreef: So you could say ortp has merged into ortp. should read So you could say ortp has merged into linphone Sorry for any confusion caused. regards Johan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: KDE on FreeBSD

2011-07-11 Thread Tilman Keskinöz
give up? The kaffeine guy seems to be a bit busy, there is not much traffic on the kaffeine mailinglist. But it is not abandonware. I've submitted several bugs to KDE and I see them on kaffeine.sourceforge.net, but with someoe else's name (which I elieve means the kaffeine guy is still active

KDE on FreeBSD

2011-07-10 Thread Steven Friedrich
Maintainership I LOVE kaffeine, but it appears to have many user interface bugs, yet many advanced features. Is it simply that KDE4 development is delaying development of kaffeine, or did the kaffeine guy give up? I've submitted several bugs to KDE and I see them on kaffeine.sourceforge.net

Re: KDE on FreeBSD

2011-07-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
I'd love to help, if someone could help me find a JOB.  In the US, virtualy no one runs FreeBSD, so I am unable to find a job, even with 34 years experience. ___ Virtually, right? Maybe they do run FreeBSD on a virtual machine? There are no stats to

How to remove KDE and How to install Gnome

2011-05-02 Thread Riack Raacvöejaמיכלאנג'לו
Hi, I installed PC-BSD 8.2 (FreeBSD 8.2) in my laptop, I would like to know, How to remove KDE and How to install Gnome from shell. I hope to receive information from you. -- === Thanks Best Regards, Riack מיכלאנג'לו === ___ freebsd

Re: How to remove KDE and How to install Gnome

2011-05-02 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Riack Raacvöejaמיכלאנג'לו saacnor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I installed PC-BSD 8.2 (FreeBSD 8.2)  in my laptop, I would like to know, How to remove KDE and How to install Gnome from shell. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html But since you are using

Re: Unable to update to kde-4.6.1

2011-03-30 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
try uninstalling cmake cd /usr/ports/devel/cmake make deinstall make install clean -jahan On 3/27/11, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: After following the instructions in UPDATING, I am still experiencing a problem getting KDE-4 updated. I have tried several different methods

Unable to update to kde-4.6.1

2011-03-27 Thread Jerry
After following the instructions in UPDATING, I am still experiencing a problem getting KDE-4 updated. I have tried several different methods. The following is the output of the last attempt. === kde4-4.6.1 depends on file: /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdebugdialog - not found ===Verifying install

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-17 Thread Foo JH
Hello all, including the guys who responded. Thanks for the comments and tips/ links. I'd see what I can do to move fwd on the issue. Appreciate your feedback! On 3/10/2011 11:33 AM, Juan C. Valido wrote: I'm an old foggie also and a lifetime Windows guy and I did a lot of research and a

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-10 Thread Juan C. Valido
A GUI on a server is just a matter of preference, I go back to before Dos 1.0 and when Windows came out, I fell in love. Now I've got to have a GUI on everything, besides as you get older the command line becomes harder (memory loss)... On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 08:39 +0100, Bas Smeelen wrote: On

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 03/10/2011 12:35 PM, Juan C. Valido wrote: A GUI on a server is just a matter of preference, I go back to before Dos 1.0 and when Windows came out, I fell in love. Now I've got to have a GUI on everything, besides as you get older the command line becomes harder (memory loss)... Do you plan

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 03/10/2011 01:46 PM, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 03/10/2011 12:35 PM, Juan C. Valido wrote: A GUI on a server is just a matter of preference, I go back to before Dos 1.0 and when Windows came out, I fell in love. Now I've got to have a GUI on everything, besides as you get older the command line

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-10 Thread Juan C. Valido
Thank you, being a Windows guy, I didn't know about webmin, tried it and was impressed. New Server coming up no GUI... On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 08:39 +0100, Bas Smeelen wrote: On 03/10/2011 04:33 AM, Juan C. Valido wrote: I'm an old foggie also and a lifetime Windows guy and I did a lot of

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:46:42 +0100, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: Do you plan to update FreeBSD and installed ports on your servers on a regular basis? Then I would not recommend installing graphical window ports (applications) on these servers, because it can give you a lot of time,

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-10 Thread Juan C. Valido
Well. I don't really know what I'm doing but you offer some great advice, thanks. For an old man I learn fast, I don't mind doing research and of course RTFM :-) On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 01:10 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:46:42 +0100, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: Do you

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 03/11/2011 01:10 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:46:42 +0100, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: Do you plan to update FreeBSD and installed ports on your servers on a regular basis? Then I would not recommend installing graphical window ports (applications) on these servers,

any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-09 Thread Foo JH
Hi guys, I know the steps are documented on the Handbook and all. I've tried to read, follow, and re-read the steps, but I'm not still getting any popular window manager up and running on my FreeBSD servers. Meanwhile new hires are seduced by the comes-with-it windows manager via Ubuntu

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-09 Thread Juan C. Valido
I'm an old foggie also and a lifetime Windows guy and I did a lot of research and a lot of trial and error until I found Dan's blog. God Bless the Man! Without his blog I would not have this server up. And yes it's running gnome. https://www.dan.me.uk/blog/category/freebsd/ On Thu, 2011-03-10 at

Re: any friendly folk willing to teach an old foggie how to configure kde/ gnome on freebsd?

2011-03-09 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 03/10/2011 04:33 AM, Juan C. Valido wrote: I'm an old foggie also and a lifetime Windows guy and I did a lot of research and a lot of trial and error until I found Dan's blog. God Bless the Man! Without his blog I would not have this server up. And yes it's running gnome.

KDE on FreeBSD 8.1 - Akonadi Control Process Not Registered at D-Bus

2011-02-04 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hello, I have installed X.org and KDE on my FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (directly from the packages collection on the Installation DVD-ROM) and I have taken these steps: +/etc/rc.conf: dbus_enable=YES +/etc/rc.conf: hald_enable=YES and also: I have added startkde4 to .xinitrc While using KDE, I

Re: KDE on FreeBSD 8.1 - Akonadi Control Process Not Registered at D-Bus

2011-02-04 Thread Alexey Serebryakoff
/obj/usr/src/sys/KARFAGEN i386 -- Best regards, Alexey Serebryakoff PGP Public Key: 0xB71BE1472B075100 В сообщении от Пятница 04 февраля 2011 23:27:51 автор Bahman Kahinpour написал: Hello, I have installed X.org and KDE on my FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (directly from the packages collection

Re: KDE on FreeBSD 8.1 - Akonadi Control Process Not Registered at D-Bus

2011-02-04 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:23:31 +0600 Alexey Serebryakoff overlap...@gmail.com articulated: This is my /etc/rc.conf ... hald_enable=YES

gnome to kde

2010-12-30 Thread xinyou yan
I want to use kde instead of gnome How can i delete gnome completely (I am afraid to delete others or less delete ) thank you ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: gnome to kde

2010-12-30 Thread Eitan Adler
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:53 AM, xinyou yan yxy@gmail.com wrote:  I want to use kde instead of  gnome How can i delete gnome  completely (I am afraid to  delete others or less delete ) Use pkg_rmleaves (ports) to remove the leaf ports of gnome and keep in going thru until you don't see

Re: Building kdiff3 for kde 3.5

2010-11-19 Thread doug
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Maciej Milewski wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 08:37:51, d...@safeport.com wrote: Apparently only the version for kde4 is on the ports and I could not find a package for 3.5. Building the available source had some interesting results but ultimate did not work. What I

Re: Building kdiff3 for kde 3.5

2010-11-17 Thread Maciej Milewski
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 08:37:51, d...@safeport.com wrote: Apparently only the version for kde4 is on the ports and I could not find a package for 3.5. Building the available source had some interesting results but ultimate did not work. What I finally did was google the 3.5 package name

Building kdiff3 for kde 3.5

2010-11-16 Thread doug
Apparently only the version for kde4 is on the ports and I could not find a package for 3.5. Building the available source had some interesting results but ultimate did not work. What I finally did was google the 3.5 package name I had installed and found a copy at the University of Kent.

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-29 Thread Tim Dunphy
kfind preparetips kfmclient servicemenudeinstallation kinfocenter servicemenuinstallation I have so far only installed kde4base.. I am attempting to install the full KDE 4... thanks for your help On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:32 AM

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-29 Thread Warren Block
.. I am attempting to install the full KDE 4... startkde is in kdebase4-workspace, but you can't install any of the KDE sub-ports by themselves and expect it to run. Install x11/kde4 for the whole thing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-29 Thread Tim Dunphy
-7.5            X.Org complete distribution metaport But startkde does not appear to be in /usr/local/kde4/bin ... I have so far only installed kde4base.. I am attempting to install the full KDE 4... startkde is in kdebase4-workspace, but you can't install any of the KDE sub-ports

start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Dunphy
hey guys, I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start it: echo startkde ~/.xinitrc I have attempted startx but the system doesn't know about it. may I have a suggestion to proceed? thanks! --

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Tim Dunphy
sorry forgot to mention I am running it on a dell optiplex gx620 .. thanks in advance On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys,  I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1  I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread justin v
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:24:19 -0700, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: sorry forgot to mention I am running it on a dell optiplex gx620 .. thanks in advance On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys, I have kdebase4 installed successfully

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Liontaur
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys, I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start it: echo startkde ~/.xinitrc I have attempted startx but the system

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com writes: sorry forgot to mention I am running it on a dell optiplex gx620 .. thanks in advance On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys, I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 I found the following

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Tim Dunphy wrote: I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start it: echo startkde ~/.xinitrc I have attempted startx but the system doesn't know about it. may I have a suggestion to

KDE forgets about display resolution in 8.1-release

2010-10-24 Thread Friedemann Becker
Hello, every time I boot, there's a display resolution of 1600x1200. I can change it via Start/KDE = Settings = System Settings = Display = Size Orientation, after login out and in again, it's still the same, but after rebooting it's lost. I don't want to put a fixed resolution in /etc/X11

Re: how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-10 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
get my UPS set up properly. Right now, the server is text-only. What ports to I need to install to get the X-Window System up? I'll probably use KDE and some other GUI stuff. I will eventually use the server as a print server for anything OOo or PDF. Whatever. Use pkg_add(1). That is easy

Re: how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-10 Thread Chris Hill
: pkg_add -r xorg ...much faster than building ports. I don't know how much about KDE, but I'd suggest that you get X working first and then tackle KDE, rather than try to do everything in one big step. Also, what do I add to ~kline/[*]? I have the file .xinitrc in ~, but I think that gets

Re: how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-10 Thread Polytropon
anything inside a user's home directory. Depending on using xdm (will work with KDE) or kdm (KDE's own graphical login manager), or simply startx (without any display manager), you will have to create ~/.xinitrc and (or) ~/.xsession. Those are shell scripts executed at X startup. As I am not a KDE

Re: how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 10 October 2010 15:34:39 Polytropon wrote: The startkde command should be fully sufficient, as all other things are to be configured inside KDE. That may be /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde, since /usr/local/kde4/bin probably won't be in $PATH. -- Bruce Cran

Re: how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, October 10, 2010 a las 06:09:32PM +0100, Bruce Cran escribió: On Sunday 10 October 2010 15:34:39 Polytropon wrote: The startkde command should be fully sufficient, as all other things are to be configured inside KDE. That may be /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde, since /usr

how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-09 Thread Gary Kline
, the server is text-only. What ports to I need to install to get the X-Window System up? I'll probably use KDE and some other GUI stuff. I will eventually use the server as a print server for anything OOo or PDF. Whatever. It has been nearly ten years since I last dealt with getting-X-going. Right now

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
-0500, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar ja...@bol-online.comwrote: Dear colleagues, Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Polytropon
with (1st) beginner-level knowledge and (2nd) sufficiently modern hardware. As a German, I found that KDE's localisation and inter- nationalisation, the language support for the german language, was not as good as that of Gnome. Minor problems occured when needing to install codecs (to make the KDE media

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an out of the box experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as it brings all possible stuff preinstalled and

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
On 10/6/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar ja...@bol-online.comwrote: Dear colleagues, Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
On 10/9/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an out of the box experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as

KDE

2010-10-06 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Dear colleagues, Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey. But failed to install straight way from /usr/ports/x11/kde4 Its now gcc problem. waiting for gcc problem to be cleared. By hand can be solved (possibly

Re: KDE

2010-10-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar ja...@bol-online.comwrote: Dear colleagues, Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey. Is there anyone has actually successfully installed directly from

Re: KDE

2010-10-06 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:50:47 -0500, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar ja...@bol-online.comwrote: Dear colleagues, Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users instead of Windows XP or so

Re: simplest way to get gnome/ kde up and running

2010-10-04 Thread Foo JH
Have you actually installed KDE and/or Gnome? I don't see that step included in what you say you have done. If you have not you will of course need to do that before you can configure either of them. For Gnome you will probably want the x11/gnome2 port/package while for KDE you will probably

simplest way to get gnome/ kde up and running

2010-10-03 Thread Foo JH
Hi guys, I've been trying without luck to get KDE/ Gnome configured. I've been reading and re-reading (and trying and re-trying) to get the window manager running, but it's been driving me nuts. - How far I've gotten: 1. Installing Xorg from the DVD package is easy. I've added

Re: simplest way to get gnome/ kde up and running

2010-10-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 08:22:06PM +0800, Foo JH wrote: Hi guys, I've been trying without luck to get KDE/ Gnome configured. I've been reading and re-reading (and trying and re-trying) to get the window manager running, but it's been driving me nuts. - How far I've gotten: 1

Latest KDE 4.5.1

2010-09-17 Thread Steven Friedrich
Can anyone install the Fortune plasma widget? It doen't show up in my widget box, and I even tried to install the downloaded plasmoid I found in /tmp/kde-admin. No joy. I'm trying to discover if this anomaly is everywhere, or I just need to rebuild something.. -- System Name: laptop2

problems starting vncserver with KDE

2010-08-15 Thread Dan Langille
I'm trying to start VNCServer with KDE 3 on FreeBSD 8.2-stable. All ports were built today from a fresh portsnap. tightvnc-1.3.10_3 I'm lost now... Suggestions? $ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/home/dan/bin

Fwd: Help with KDE Policykit system-settings

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Moellering
Apologies for the cross-post. All help is appreciated. I just installed Freebsd 8.1 amd64 with the kde 4.45 package. I am trying to get the PolicyKit to work with hal using the kde policyKit 'manager'. I have tried both running as root or using su. In both cases, when I pull up the (KDE

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-08-02 Thread Michel Talon
I wrote: Of course making X to run was an exercise in pain, i had to enable HAL and DBUS otherwise keyboard and mouse were not recognized, the data in the xorg.conf were not obeyed, etc. but this was to be expected. The only problem i have now is that i have seen no way to configure the kdm

Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Unga
Hi all I have installed KDE 4.4.5 from ports (ie. with full compilation) on FreeBSD 8.1 on i386. Once HAL and DBUS is enabled in /etc/rc.conf, behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor: 1. None of the desktop icons works to launch programs. Eg. Click or double click on Firefox icon does

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Unga wrote: Hi all I have installed KDE 4.4.5 from ports (ie. with full compilation) on FreeBSD 8.1 on i386. Once HAL and DBUS is enabled in /etc/rc.conf, behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor: 2. Once type firefox on the Run Command it doesn't appear until I shake

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Unga
--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Subject: Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad? To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 11:53 PM On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Unga wrote: Hi

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
Unga complained: behaviour of KDE is surprisingly poor I have installed a fresh FreeBSD-8.1 and a fresh kde4 from the 8.1 cdrom, and i see none of your problems. For me KDE4 works perfectly OK, i am even surprised. Of course making X to run was an exercise in pain, i had to enable HAL

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 01 August 2010, Michel Talon wrote: Firefox3 also chokes on Google maps while seamonkey and konqueror work ok. There are obviously javascript problems. Finally i have installed flash10 with the pluginwrapper, and it works wonderfully fine in seamonkey and firefox3, including sound,

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
Mike Clarke wrote: Are you by any chance using the flashblock extension with firefox? This extension has a problem with streetview and you need to add maps.google.com to the flashblock whitelist. I don't use any firefox extension, and all programs are freshly installed from

autologin KDE, 8-1-RELEASE-amd64 not working

2010-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I am not sure why, but autologin is not working, I get authentication errors :( I setup KDE as the desktop using echo 'exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde4' ~/.xinitrc echo 'local_startup=${local_startup} /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d' /etc/rc.conf echo 'kdm4_enable=YES' /etc/rc.conf

Re: autologin KDE, 8-1-RELEASE-amd64 not working

2010-07-27 Thread Thiago Rodrigues Santos
Em Terça-feira 27 Julho 2010, às 14:58:33, Antonio Olivares escreveu: Dear folks, I am not sure why, but autologin is not working, I get authentication errors :( I setup KDE as the desktop using echo 'exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde4' ~/.xinitrc echo 'local_startup=${local_startup

Re: autologin KDE, 8-1-RELEASE-amd64 not working

2010-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Thiago Rodrigues Santos trsant...@gmail.com wrote: Em Terça-feira 27 Julho 2010, às 14:58:33, Antonio Olivares escreveu: Dear folks, I am not sure why, but autologin is not working, I get authentication errors :( I setup KDE as the desktop using echo 'exec

Re: [kde-freebsd] libiodbc build failure @ configure cmd

2010-07-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
for others who may have the same issue - http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10316 you need to replace your base. PS: after you replace your base distribution and reboot, you will notice the system will not load and you will have to issue boot GENERIC at the boot prompt. The workaround

kde 4.3.1 dont loading

2010-07-25 Thread Андрей К озаренко
hi, after installing nvidia driver at FreeBSD 8.0, Kde 4.3.1 don't loading after login screen, and when input username and password - login screen reload. Before installing nvidia driver, kde 4.3.1 load ok. Who know how decide this problem? Help please

kde 4.3.1 dont loading

2010-07-25 Thread Dima Bui
hi, after installing nvidia driver at FreeBSD 8.0, Kde 4.3.1 don't loading after login screen, and when input username and password - login screen reload. Before installing nvidia driver, kde 4.3.1 load ok. Who know how decide this problem? Help please

Re: [kde-freebsd] startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation.

2010-07-20 Thread Rusty Nejdl
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:51:50 +0200, claudiu vasadi wrote: hello fellas, can no one give me any ideas ? I reinstalled libthr.so.3 in the meantime but with no effect. I got it last night and simply recompiling kdelibs was sufficient: sudo portupgrade -f kdelibs Rusty Nejdl

KDE won't start

2010-07-19 Thread Caleb Stein
Whenever I try to start KDE4, I get this output: # /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d/kdm4 start Startink kdm4. Updating KDM configuration Information: reading pre-existing kdmrc /usr/local/kde4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (config version 2.4) # info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map

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