A humble request for FreeBSD enthusiasts to install desktop this way
Manish Jain
bourne.identity at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 26 10:26:06 UTC 2017
Hi all,
This is not a question. It is a request to folks to try my first port
sysutils/mkdesktop committed yesterday *thanks Ultima and Yuri
mkdesktop, a Bourne shell script, needs just that to install a whole
desktop (X, applications, desktop) and mkdesktop is built for extreme
convolution, with as much flexibility as possible - something that
Ultima spotted early on.
By default, you get 5 stages:
pre_x (stuff where you can get console applications - anything beyond sh)
x (usually just gets xorg)
post_x (any X applications that are not DE-specific: firefox; xmms, etc)
desktop (what you define as the DE: wired by default for kde4)
post_desktop (DE specific stuff that the desktop stage itself does not
get: kolourpaint; ksnapshot; kcalc)
You can add-and-subtract not just from the stage definitions - but the
number of stages itself. If you wish to get everything in a single
stage, you can do that too. Or you can use a few million stages.
Each stage is declared in the file ~/mkdesktop/stage-definitions) and
can be overridden by a stage-specific file under ~/mkdesktop/pkg_list/)
Since the default is wired for kde4, I'll give a short intro to
customise. Let's say you want fvwm2 (with smplayer and gvim thrown in
too, just for kicks) as your desktop, use:
mkdesktop #accept initialisation and then issue the following command
in a separate terminal :
echo "
fvwm2
smplayer
gvim" > ~/mkdesktop/pkg_list/desktop
I hope it gives ideas for what mkdesktop does. It is particularly
helpful when setting up multiple systems - just save your
~/mkdesktop/pkg_list/ files once (if any), apart from the script itself
and its helper data under /usr/local/share/mkdesktop/ on a USB stick.
Note : Using --begin 0 will even configure graphics for you. By default,
begin level is 1 and end is 5 (or the highest number computed from
~/mkdesktop/stage-definitions at runtime)
If any folks try mkdesktop, I shall be thankful. Of course you can
always ping me with comments and suggestions.
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Thanks & Regards,
Manish Jain
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