FreeBSD vs. window managers

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0600
hal <hal at cc.usu.edu> wrote:

> For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the:
>      default window manager?
>      developer recommended window manager?
>      easiest to install?
> 
> I am not trying to start a religious war here.
> I am currently installing KDE from source and it
> is taking forever.
> 
> #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3
> # make
> 
> Some of the packages needed cannot be found by the
> make file.  Google is great but some of the packages are
> really hard to find.
> 
> hal 

Is there a reason you're compiling KDE from source?  KDE is included on
the installation CD's.  Using pkg_add, you can also install binary
packages (and their dependencies) for releases and stable branches from
the ftp sites.  For example, to get KDE for the i386 architecture, 5-
STABLE branch, root would execute:

pkg_add
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/kde-3.4.2.tbz

(Beware wordwrap in emails.)

Regards,

Andrew Gould