Setting up a minimal KDE

[Ernie Luzar]

Manish Jain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my tertiary box, I was facing multiple problems with FreeBSD 11 
> Release. Rather than fix each one, I decided to try a new, daring 
> approach - a minimal KDE atop FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT r316508.
> 
> Comments, suggestions, tips and experimentation requests are open to 
> this venture.
> 
> I installed FreeBSD CURRENT and then installed kde via 'pkg install 
> kde'. After kde installation was over, I realized that I was running 
> against my original aspiration of a minimal KDE. So I did the following 
> to remove KDE :
> 
> pkg delete -R kde
> pkg autoremove
> 
> Then I installed lightweight KDE using :
> 
> pkg install kde-baseapps kde-workspace kde-runtime
> 
> The above setup has the following components built-in : konsole, kate, 
> kdm. It was missing okular, k3b and kolourpaint, but these easily be 
> installed via pkg.
> 
> I now have a fully functional KDE and a box that, despite being CURRENT, 
> works well. There are glitches, however. If anyone has tips to help 
> resolve the glitches, it shall lead to the perfect KDE setup :
> 
> 1) This is the more serious glitch. Taskbar icons in the KDE panel, for 
> some reason I cannot guess why, are rendered horribly. Fonts everywhere 
> else are pretty much the same as before, but iconified taskbar fonts in 
> the panel are very, very ugly.
> 
> 2) Because my network interface is statically configured, I want to turn 
> off dhclient entirely, so that it does not work on each reboot 
> automatically. DHCPDISCOVER packets cost me about a minute on system 
> start-up. I have tried putting the following in /etc/rc.conf, but this 
> does not seem to have any effect : 'dhcpd_enabled=NO"'.
> 
> 3) I can't figure out how to remove nepomuk-core. 'pkg delete 
> nepomuk-core' says it would also lead to removal of kde-baseapps, which 
> would obviously be a very bad idea.
> 
> Thanks for any help. If anyone has experimentation requests with FreeBSD 
> CURRENT and/or KDE, please feel free to ping me.
> 


Can't help you with items 1 & 3, but item 2 is an easy one to fix. In 
your rc.conf file you must have a statement something this;
ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
where rl0 is the interface facing the public internet.
Remove it or comment it out