X11 question

Fred Boatwright fred at blakemfg.com
Thu Aug 12 19:51:37 UTC 2010


Hi Oliver and Tim,

I installed xinit but startx still doesn't exist.  whereis returns
nothing and man startx returns nothing.

Fred

Tim Kellers wrote:
> 
> /usr/ports/x11/xinit
> 
> On my system (with X, obviously, already installed):
> 
> beta# whereis startx
> 
> startx: /usr/local/bin/startx /usr/local/man/man1/startx.1.gz
> 
> beta# pkg_which /usr/local/bin/startx
> 
> xinit-1.2.0
> 
> beta# whereis xinit
> 
> xinit: /usr/local/bin/xinit /usr/local/man/man1/xinit.1.gz
> /usr/ports/x11/xinit
> 
> I' m not certain about the p5/Perl TK questions, but in the file:
> /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-Tk/pkg-descr
> there is this description:
> 
> This a re-port of a perl interface to Tk8.4 (John Ousterhout's production
> release).
> 
> Perl API is essentially the same as Tk800.025 but has not
> been verified as compliant.
> 
> It also includes all the C code parts of Tix8.1.4 from SourceForge.
> The perl code corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully implemented.
> 
> This version (Tk804.025) is only likely to work with perl5.8+.
> 
> Tim Kellers
> 
> On 08/12/10 12:02, Fred Boatwright wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Where would I find startx?  I assume it is part one of the ports under
> > X11
> > but I don't want to install all of them to find it.
> >
> > Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Fred
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