Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:40:39 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GUI-related questions. Message-ID: <20040306014039.GA53535@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20040305162941.63be4e89@vixen42.> References: <20040305085141.GA91134@tao.thought.org> <20040305162941.63be4e89@vixen42.>
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:29:41PM -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:51:41 -0800 > Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> 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 kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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