Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:54:15 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Window managers Message-ID: <421D7A17.3050109@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <599586665.20050224065658@wanadoo.fr> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAkUru9e0Xgkm1jphiEj0758KAAAAQAAAAVNKPkcwi5Uq3w6wWDp/biAEAAAAA@video-phones-evdo.com> <1505159320.20050223203426@wanadoo.fr> <20050223222900.X5778@frambozen.monochrome.org> <20050224035935.GI36248@wantadilla.lemis.com> <599586665.20050224065658@wanadoo.fr>
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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
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