From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 18 01:57:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC2021065672 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:57:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9598FC15 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:57:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-88-61.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.88.61]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5DB16C0192; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:57:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id m7I1vWin003260; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:57:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:57:32 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Gary Kline Message-Id: <20080818035732.56348313.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <1219020103.4994.21.camel@localhost> References: <20080817220431.GA1187@thought.org> <20080818001426.0fb09ff7.freebsd@edvax.de> <20080817233006.GC3376@thought.org> <20080818020238.1a7a8013.freebsd@edvax.de> <1219020103.4994.21.camel@localhost> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: kde troubles.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:57:35 -0000 On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:41:42 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 02:02 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > Yes, since I need to use FreeBSD 7 after an accident destroying all > > my data where fsck cannot help anymore, and FreeBSD 7 and it's > > software does not behave the way I think it should... :-( > > > > i know the feeling. It's not that I want to complain, I'll stay with FreeBSD, I'm just a little upset. Things behave much slower, allthough the system boots faster. X and the applications seem to eat up every bit of performance boost the new OS gave them. In the "good old times", you could update your applications and they ran faster on the same hardware. That's what I've loved FreeBSD for. Today, the applications run slower after every update, so I have to update my hardware in order to just keep the speed? (Off topic, sorry.) > xdm works very well, but only tried logging in as root. > missing .xsession and .ctwmrc that i used more many, Many years. > > i'll tell you, after using FBSD since 2.0.5, i'm ready to give omething > prepackaged a try. The only things I do compile is wirld, kernel, and mplayer. For everything else, pkg_add -r is very welcome. By the way, compiling lasts much longer in FreeBSD 7. I think this is due to more optimization, but from 1 to 9 hours... what's wrong here?! Of course, xdm won't give you the functionality that kdm offers. A nice replacement for xdm, by the way, is wdm, which you can use together with Windowmaker, but without it, too. Especially if you want to use different window managers, wdm allows a simple means to switch them at login time. > To the LIST: I found my missing .xinitrc. but now my .xsession file is > gone. This is my ~/.xsession: It allows sourcing of the settings from ~/.cshrc (because the C shell is my usual dialog shell) and then executes ~/.xinitrc: #!/bin/csh source ~/.cshrc exec ~/.xinitrc So you can keep all your settings in ~/.xinitrc, for example: #!/bin/sh xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc xsetroot -solid rgb:3b/4c/7a xset b 100 1000 15 & xset r rate 250 30 & xset s off & xset -dpms & exec wmaker Both files are +x attributes. > going to reboot after rm'ing kdm.pid. You should be able to restart kdm from the console, but I think your setting includes automatic kdm start after system startup, controlled by /etc/ttys. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...