From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 06:54:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733BA16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:54:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E28943D41 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:54:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918CD5D41 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:54:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 46274-02 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:54:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-75-250.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.75.250]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7F95D25 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:54:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <421D7A17.3050109@mac.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:54:15 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1505159320.20050223203426@wanadoo.fr> <20050223222900.X5778@frambozen.monochrome.org> <20050224035935.GI36248@wantadilla.lemis.com> <599586665.20050224065658@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <599586665.20050224065658@wanadoo.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Subject: Re: Window managers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:54:21 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: >>Possibly. It could also be something primitive like twm, of course. > > I meant whatever is used most on commercial UNIX configurations, like > Solaris or whatever I'd be likely to encounter on a large site. Back in the good old days, that would have been OpenLook. Today, you'd probably find KDE or GNOME on most systems (FreeBSD, Linux, OS X). > It appears that CDE is a strictly commercial package, so I won't be > using that. > > How hard is it to _uninstall_ window managers and desktops? It's not hard. "pkg_delete -xf kde" or "pkg_delete -xf gnome". [ You might want to be a little more selective than using such a wildcard, however, although if you've got the precompiled packages handy, reinstalling something again is not a big deal if you need a dependency. ] -- -Chuck