Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:41:11PM +0200, Raphael Ahrens wrote: > Ahh, thank you. > ke...@kpa.biglobe.ne.jp wrote on Sat, 06.Jul.13 00:03: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 14:11:41 +0200 > > Raphael Ahrens wrote: > > > > > When I execute "cd /usr/ports/editors/vim; make config" I get > > > =

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Raphael Ahrens
Hi, Jens Jahnke wrote on Fri, 05.Jul.13 18:49: > Hi, > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 17:52:59 +0200 > Raphael Ahrens wrote: > > RA> To get to the bottom of the problem here my make.conf received with > RA> my now again working gvim, thanks to the remark of Kent. :) > RA> > RA> WITH_X11=YES > RA> O

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Jens Jahnke
Hi, On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 17:52:59 +0200 Raphael Ahrens wrote: RA> To get to the bottom of the problem here my make.conf received with RA> my now again working gvim, thanks to the remark of Kent. :) RA> RA> WITH_X11=YES RA> OPTIMZED_CFLAGS=YES RA> MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=2 RA> BUILD_OPTIM

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Carl Johnson
e this does not work. Unless I hack the Makefile and force it to > enable gui mode it just isn't compiled in. Try running 'make show-options' and see what you get. Mine shows that virtually everything is disabled. If I run 'make showconfig' then it shows n

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Raphael Ahrens
wrote: > > > > > > C> Hey Raphael :-) Go to /usr/ports/editors/vim and make deinstall > > > C> reinstall it, that works for me, and it helps with dialogs in texmode > > > C> as well :-) > > > > > > for me this does not work. Unless I

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Raphael Ahrens
Ahh, thank you. ke...@kpa.biglobe.ne.jp wrote on Sat, 06.Jul.13 00:03: > Hi, > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 14:11:41 +0200 > Raphael Ahrens wrote: > > > When I execute "cd /usr/ports/editors/vim; make config" I get > > ===> No options to configure > > try: setenv WITH_OPTIONS=yes that did the trick

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> > > C> Hey Raphael :-) Go to /usr/ports/editors/vim and make deinstall > > > C> reinstall it, that works for me, and it helps with dialogs in texmode > > > C> as well :-) > > > > > > for me this does not work. Unless I hack the Makefile and force

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread kentn
Hi, On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 14:11:41 +0200 Raphael Ahrens wrote: > When I execute "cd /usr/ports/editors/vim; make config" I get > ===> No options to configure try: setenv WITH_OPTIONS=yes -- Kent.N ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread CeDeROM
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Raphael Ahrens wrote: >> Have you tried "make config" (as root) select X11 and graphical > When I execute "cd /usr/ports/editors/vim; make config" I get > ===> No options to configure No options? Are you root? I have those http://justpaste.it/30li Try: su

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Jens Jahnke
s still build without x11 support. The only thing working right now is manually tweaking the Makefile. Otherwise I always end up with a ./configure --enable-gui=no ... Regards, Jens -- 05. Heuert 2013, 15:47 Homepage : http://www.jan0sch.de Antique fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood. Modern f

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Polytropon
and make deinstall > > C> reinstall it, that works for me, and it helps with dialogs in texmode > > C> as well :-) > > > > for me this does not work. Unless I hack the Makefile and force it to > > enable gui mode it just isn't compiled in. > > Try a

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Raphael Ahrens
CeDeROM wrote on Fri, 05.Jul.13 13:47: > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Raphael Ahrens > wrote: > > I tried this, but I get the same result. > > The thing is in the make prozess it prints > > defaulting to: don't HAVE_X11 > > checking --en

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
gt; C> as well :-) > > for me this does not work. Unless I hack the Makefile and force it to > enable gui mode it just isn't compiled in. Try a make rmconfig first and then make install. > > Regards, > > Jens > > -- > 05. Heuert 2013, 13:19 > Homepage : http

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread CeDeROM
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Raphael Ahrens wrote: > I tried this, but I get the same result. > The thing is in the make prozess it prints > defaulting to: don't HAVE_X11 > checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support > checking X11/SM/SMli

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Jens Jahnke
Hi, On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 12:56:32 +0200 CeDeROM wrote: C> Hey Raphael :-) Go to /usr/ports/editors/vim and make deinstall C> reinstall it, that works for me, and it helps with dialogs in texmode C> as well :-) for me this does not work. Unless I hack the Makefile and force it to enable

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Raphael Ahrens
Hi Tomek, I tried this, but I get the same result. The thing is in the make prozess it prints defaulting to: don't HAVE_X11 checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support checking X11/SM/SMlib.h usability... yes checking X11/SM/SMlib.h presence..

Re: gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread CeDeROM
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Raphael Ahrens wrote: > After my last update of vim I can't use gvim anymore. > If fails with the following message > E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time > Now what do I have to do to compile vim with GUI support? Hey

gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Raphael Ahrens
Hi list, After my last update of vim I can't use gvim anymore. If fails with the following message E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time Now what do I have to do to compile vim with GUI support? Thanks, Raphael ___ fr

gvim GUI cannot be used

2013-07-05 Thread Raphael Ahrens
Hi list, since my last (01.07) upgrade of vim, I can't use gvim anymore. It fails with the following error message: E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time What do I have to do to again compile vim with GUI support? Thanks, Ra

Re: just thought of a new gui port!

2012-11-28 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:26:25 -0800 >> Subject: Re: just thought of a new gui port! >> From: Waitman Gobble >> >> On Nov 27, 2012 5:20 PM, "Robert Bonomi" wrote: >> > >> > &

Re: just thought of a new gui port!

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:26:25 -0800 > Subject: Re: just thought of a new gui port! > From: Waitman Gobble > > On Nov 27, 2012 5:20 PM, "Robert Bonomi" wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:10:50 -0800 > > > From: Ga

(OT) Re: just thought of a new gui port!

2012-11-28 Thread Gary Aitken
> wunderground is definitely a great site however at least in my location the > temperature can be off as much as ten degrees, its almost like they are > reading from a station on top of the mountain, and I.m in the valley. Its > an issue of being on the coast I suppose, for example it could be 80

weather info (was Re: just thought of a new gui port!)

2012-11-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote: It looks like Oregon Scientific has some cool weather station models with USB connectivity, might work well with a FreeBSD system... wunderground is definitely a great site however at least in my location the temperature can be off as much as ten degre

Re: just thought of a new gui port!

2012-11-28 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Nov 27, 2012 5:20 PM, "Robert Bonomi" wrote: > > > > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:10:50 -0800 > > From: Gary Kline > > Subject: just thought of a new gui port! > > > > > > 2. I live so close to the airport weather station that im sure

Re: just thought of a new gui port!

2012-11-27 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:10:50 -0800 > From: Gary Kline > Subject: just thought of a new gui port! > > > 2. I live so close to the airport weather station that im sure > that would tell me tons more stuff that I could pick up outside the > hous

just thought of a new gui port!

2012-11-27 Thread Gary Kline
how about a local weather GUI that reports the outdoors highs and lows [temps], and the barometric scale and the forecast? we've got one in a shaded area on our deck that pings an indoors receiver every 10-15 minutes. I can't get too cl

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 07/07/2012 23:08, Bruce Cran wrote: On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes. Sor

RE: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
nt such opinion naturally. As for the original question have a look at the gparted live cd, full GUI no idea how it is freebsd related. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 07/07/2012 23:04, Thomas Mueller wrote: I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning program for FreeBSD, replacing the older gpt still used in NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. No. gpart is the tool - it supports both mbr and gpt partitioning schemes. -- Bruce Cran

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:06 -0400, Carmel wrote: > I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I > heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for > FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? I think gpart is the newer disk partitioning

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What happened to the idea of "having a choice" ? If you want to keep living in the 80's with a text based menu, go ahead, I prefer a click not only me but anyone that wants productivity do live in 80's text based interfaces or even 60-70's command line interfaces. These are facts. And partiti

RE: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: 07 July 2012 14:50 To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: GUI for "gpart" > I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpar

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Beni Brinckman
2012/7/7 Wojciech Puchar : >> I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I >> heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for >> FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? > > no idea. If you want it with already inst

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? no idea. If you want it with already installed system, try to compile linux software. Anyway i see no reason

Re: GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:58:06 -0400, Carmel wrote: > I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I > heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for > FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? I'd suggest to look into the PC-BSD installe

GUI for "gpart"

2012-07-07 Thread Carmel
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for "gpart" I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? -- Carmel ✌ carmel...@hotmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

RE: Broken amd64 packages: cvsup-without-gui and sup

2012-01-09 Thread Devin Teske
Update. > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Devin Teske > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 12:05 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Broken amd64 packages: cvsup-without-gui a

Broken amd64 packages: cvsup-without-gui and sup

2012-01-09 Thread Devin Teske
Hi all, Running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6 here, we've noticed that both the amd64 build of "supfilesrv" as installed by the "sup-2.0.20060802" package AND the amd64 build of "cvsupd" as installed by the "cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_4" package, both segment

GUI tool from several years ago...

2011-11-05 Thread Gary Kline
do any of you remember the name of the port that set up a GUI square or rectangle and allowed easy expansion of code underneath? it let you do-GUI-framework-quick-and-easy. my key-click program is close enough that i want to move on to the part where the mute or speech-impaired user clicks on

Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI

2011-10-14 Thread Chris Brennan
>> >> It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have >>> any other ? (I do not know what could be). >>> >> >> This is one of those ask a hundred different people get 100 different >> answers.  I prefer KDE which would work wel

Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI

2011-10-14 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. Thanks for you comments and advice. Jorge Biquez At 10:55 p.m. 12/10/2011, Carl Johnson wrote: Adam Vande More writes: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > > It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have >> an

Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI

2011-10-12 Thread Carl Johnson
Adam Vande More writes: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > > It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have >> any other ? (I do not know what could be). >> > > This is one of those ask a hundred different people get

Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI

2011-10-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have > any other ? (I do not know what could be). > This is one of those ask a hundred different people get 100 different answers. I prefer KDE which would work we

Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI

2011-10-12 Thread Jorge Biquez
is to have a graphical interface also running with the base (FreeBsd 8.2). Is that correct? If so, here are some questions: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have any other ? (I do not know what could be). What do you think is the best option to save har

Re: what are the plain GUI text editors that use the abbrev [as in vi]?

2011-10-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 10:57:28AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:40:39AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:40:39 -0700 > > From: "Randal L. Schwartz" > > Subject: Re: what are the plain GUI text editors tha

Re: what are the plain GUI text editors that use the abbrev [as in vi]?

2011-10-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:40:39AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:40:39 -0700 > From: "Randal L. Schwartz" > Subject: Re: what are the plain GUI text editors that use the abbrev [as in > vi]? > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lis

Re: what are the plain GUI text editors that use the abbrev [as in vi]?

2011-10-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Gary" == Gary Kline writes: Gary> several months ago i asked this list if there were any =easier= text Gary> editors than vi[m] that had the abbrev ability. GNU Emacs is easier for me than vim is. And it has abbrev mode. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

what are the plain GUI text editors that use the abbrev [as in vi]?

2011-10-01 Thread Gary Kline
puter' suite. IIRC, there was at least one--like kate--that was able to use abbreviations and help those folk who cannot type fast and/or who are hunt-andd-pek type typist [like me] who never take their eyes off the keyboard. i plan on using gvim ((maybe)) and one GUI type editor. i'm

Re: How to use gui

2011-08-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sudhakar K wrote: > Sir, > i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. > But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use > gui desktop. > Now its only a dos like environment. Please help me. I&#

Re: How to use gui

2011-08-09 Thread patricio retamales
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html 2011/8/9 Sudhakar K > Sir, > i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. > But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use > gui desktop. > Now its only a

Re: How to use gui

2011-08-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Aug 9, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Sudhakar K wrote: > i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. > But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use > gui desktop. > Now its only a dos like environment. Please help me. I'm new

How to use gui

2011-08-09 Thread Sudhakar K
Sir, i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use gui desktop. Now its only a dos like environment. Please help me. I'm new to freebsd. -- <%-- *Sudhakar K* --%> <http://www.featuriz

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Vereshagin
I know St. Peter won't call your name, freebsd-questions! 2011/03/30 22:00:14 +0100 Graham Bentley => To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : GB> Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend [less dependencies = better] tkdvd should use it patched for -joliet-long ever. 73! Peter pg

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-31 Thread Chris Brennan
-08] > > While not a GUI it's minimilistic, give bashburn a shot Port: bashburn-2.1.2_2 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/bashburn Info: CD burning bash script -- Port: mybashburn-1.0.2_2 Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/mybashburn Info: Ncurses CD burning bash script Bashburn I

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-31 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
Try tkdvd. It is in ports tree (sysutils/tkdvd) -- Gökşin Akdeniz (Gökşin Akdeniz) Anahtar parmakizi/key fingerprint= FE10 8C14 A144 4FDE BE18 D5E3 E758 F49A 8A5D F8AE [Son kullanma tarihi/expire date: 2011-06-08] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-31 Thread Graham Bentley
Thanks for your several considered replies > 1) If you're already got KDE libs, k3b / k3b-kde4 is pretty light > 2) I find that Gnome has pretty good built-in support > 3) Polytropon as 1,2 mostly I shoud have been more specific. Im running xorg with vtwm and trying to stay light / minimal as pos

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Graham Bentley wrote: > Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend [less dependencies = > better] > If you're already got KDE libs, running sysutils/k3b or sysutils/k3b-kde4 is pretty light. It's feature set is comparable if not better

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-30 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:14 +0100, "Graham Bentley" wrote: > Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend > [less dependencies = better] I don't know of a stand-alone GUI program, but all the "big" desktop environments have a favourite. The one provided by Gn

Re: Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-30 Thread Devin Teske
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 22:00 +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: > Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend [less dependencies = better] Depends on what you want to write. I find that Gnome has pretty good built-in support (both for writing ISO's and dysjoint files/directories). --

Gui CD soft recommend

2011-03-30 Thread Graham Bentley
Which GUI CD writing software can you recommend [less dependencies = better] Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-uns

Re: are there any GUI editors that use vi/vim-like abbreviations

2011-02-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 08:21:20PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > >iF we throw out "gvim" since it is simply the GUI variant of > > vim, are there are other GUI editors that use the kinds of :ab &

Re: are there any GUI editors that use vi/vim-like abbreviations

2011-02-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 06:49:18PM -0700, Fred wrote: > On 02/21/11 18:32, Gary Kline wrote: > > iF we throw out "gvim" since it is simply the GUI variant of > > vim, are there are other GUI editors that use the kinds of :ab > > abbreviations that vi do

Re: are there any GUI editors that use vi/vim-like abbreviations

2011-02-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 21 February 2011 20:49, Fred wrote: > On 02/21/11 18:32, Gary Kline wrote: >> >>        iF we throw out "gvim" since it is simply the GUI variant of >>        vim, are there are other GUI editors that use the kinds of :ab >>        abbreviations that vi d

Re: are there any GUI editors that use vi/vim-like abbreviations

2011-02-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Gary Kline wrote: >iF we throw out "gvim" since it is simply the GUI variant of >vim, are there are other GUI editors that use the kinds of :ab >abbreviations that vi does? > kate, the bundled text editor for K

Re: are there any GUI editors that use vi/vim-like abbreviations

2011-02-21 Thread Fred
On 02/21/11 18:32, Gary Kline wrote: iF we throw out "gvim" since it is simply the GUI variant of vim, are there are other GUI editors that use the kinds of :ab abbreviations that vi does? I ask this because I don't know wmany many people with spee

are there any GUI editors that use vi/vim-like abbreviations

2011-02-21 Thread Gary Kline
iF we throw out "gvim" since it is simply the GUI variant of vim, are there are other GUI editors that use the kinds of :ab abbreviations that vi does? I ask this because I don't know wmany many people with speech imopairments or who cannot speak

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-25 Thread John
On 23/09/2010 04:29, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under terminal/shell > mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved that way I have never > tried any graphical interface. > > I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yo

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I love Fluxbox too for its lightweightness and configurability. If you find it too minimalistic, I think that XFCE can be a good compromise also since it runs quite fast compared to KDE and Gnome while having most of their functionalities. XFCE is also compatible with Compiz... On Fri, Sep 24, 201

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what > path to follow? KDE? any other? Using fluxbox here for ages (used olvwm, ctwm, and fvwm[2] before. It's low overhead, very low cpu/disk/memory footprint, very fast

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Chip Camden
pointed out that is written in C (as did the homepage) > >> . . .  AND you concluded some sort of insult; not my problem. > >> > >> Do you need a rim-shot for every joke? > > > > 1. Who said I took insult?  You assume too much. > > > > 2. Th

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > >On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chip Camden > >wrote: > >> Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > >> > >> I'm not too sure what you're asking "certain window should be moved by > >> default to specific workspaces." Since you read th

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 10:46, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:36:03AM +0100, Frank Shute escribió: My belief is that people who are comfortable with Gnome/KDE are people who are familiar with working in a GUI such as Windows® and haven't come from the commandline.

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 18:22, Adam Vande More wrote: > If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot. 4.3 was > pretty big update in terms of stability, and 4.4 has been far more solid > than not. I tried 4.5.1 on 8.1/i386 with every port updated, on a 4-core AMD CPU with a Radeon HD

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 11:04, Mike Clarke wrote: That's very similar to my experience too but I'm getting the feeling that I might have to move over to KDE4 before much longer due to reduced KDE3 support with some of the apps: Same here. I delayed trying KDE4 since my old box was too old; as soon as I go

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
> 1. Who said I took insult?  You assume too much. > > 2. That was not a very clever joke, anyway.  Where's the punchline? > > 3. That doesn't answer my question about the Scrotwm page. > > Even *I* am not so socially stunted as to think a comment like that on > the S

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > >>> > >>> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 23 September 2010: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> > >> > If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, >> > lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively main

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber wrote: > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >>> >>> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, >>> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and >>

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Glen Barber
On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, >> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and >> vim-like (among other things ;-). > > Why is "written in

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > > > > If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, > > lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and > > vim-like (among other things ;-). > > Why

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > > If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, > lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and > vim-like (among other things ;-). Why is "written in C" considered such a great benefit by the Scrotw

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 22 September 2010 23:29, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under terminal/shell > mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved that way I have never > tried any graphical interface. > > I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread herbert langhans
If you prefer terminal applications you may get happy with blackbox. Its one of the smallest, but fully functional GUIs. And it is still kosher according to Unix standards. Its my favorite, I even prefer it to fluxbox, what is a little fancier. Cheers herb langhans -- sprachtraining langhans her

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
>On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Chip Camden >wrote: >> Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: >> >> I'm not too sure what you're asking "certain window should be moved by >> default to specific workspaces." Since you read the man page I'm >> guessing you're not talking about changing

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Chip Camden > wrote: > > Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden > >> wrote: > >> > Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010: > >> >> Hello all

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden >> wrote: >> > Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010: >> >> Hello all. >> >> >> >> In all these years I have been working with FreeB

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden > wrote: > > Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010: > >> Hello all. > >> > >> In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under > >> terminal/shell mode. Since all my needs to solv

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010: >> Hello all. >> >> In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under >> terminal/shell mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved >> that way I have never tried any graphical

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 23 September 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: > If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot. >  4.3 was pretty big update in terms of stability, and 4.4 has been > far more solid than not.  All the base KDE apps seem to work > appropriately, at least the ones I use.  

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Mike Clarke wrote: > When I first tried KDE4 it was much slower than KDE3, have things > improved sufficiently since then for me to think about upgrading? > If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot. 4.3 was pretty big update in terms of s

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:57:46PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > You don't have to choose one of those, there are lots of varied window > managers, and advocates for each. There's an overview here on fd.o: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Desktops. Many of those are in ports. That's a much s

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Jorge Biquez on Wednesday, 22 September 2010: > Hello all. > > In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under > terminal/shell mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved > that way I have never tried any graphical interface. > > I was wondering if you can tell suggest m

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Polytropon
ightweight, allthough "obsolete" (but still powerful) GUI is XFCE. When I write XFCE, I mean XFCE version 3. If I would mean Xfce 4, I would write Xfce. :-) A highly customizable and "still" quite professional environment is fvwm2. You can add as much stuff as you like, but you can als

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Jud
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:57 -0600, "Warren Block" wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Jorge Biquez wrote: > > > I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what > > path to follow? KDE? any other? > > The Handbook covers setting up the three major desktop environments in > ht

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Clarke
On Thursday 23 September 2010, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > After years of KDE3 I tried KDE4 and switched back in half a day. > I found it crawling slowly, with continuous crashes, rendering bugs > and missing features... > > Of course, YMMV. That's very similar to my experience too but I'm getting

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:36:03AM +0100, Frank Shute escribió: > My belief is that people who are comfortable with Gnome/KDE are people > who are familiar with working in a GUI such as Windows® and haven't > come from the commandline. Totally wrong for me. I co

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Frank Shute
ments, browser, email, etc) > > Thanks in advance > > Jorge Biquez > I remember years ago that I first started using Linux in just the console and did so for about 6 months before I set up X. It was such a pleasure to get away from a GUI and to a CLI :) When I did set up X, I us

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:38:03AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli escribió: > On 09/23/10 06:53, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > As stated before, it's really a personal matter. I like kde4 a lot, > > ... > > It's also > > lighter and faster than KDE3. It's pretty stable too, but not c

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 06:53, Adam Vande More wrote: As stated before, it's really a personal matter. I like kde4 a lot, ... It's also lighter and faster than KDE3. It's pretty stable too, but not completely so. Strange. After years of KDE3 I tried KDE4 and switched back in half a day. I found it crawl

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello all. > > In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under terminal/shell > mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved that way I have never > tried any graphical interface. > > I was wondering if you can tell suggest me

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