Java without Motif/X?

Nikolas Britton nikolas.britton at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 00:05:12 PST 2006


On 2/1/06, Micah <micahjon at ywave.com> wrote:
> Nick Triantos wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Has anyone successfully gotten Java (1.4 or 1.5) running on FreeBSD
> > without Motif/X?  I'd like to run a gui-less Java app on my server, and
> > would strongly prefer to not install all of X + Motif, and all its
> > potential security issues, just to get Java running.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > -Nick
>
> Since Java includes GUI support, there's no official or easy way of
> getting Java without X.  You could always try installing everything,
> then deinstalling X and seeing what happens.
>

Is it possible to replace Motif with QT, GTK, etc?


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