Add a section on desktop environments / window managers.
Specifically, talk about GNOME and KDE for now. Submitted by: Valentino Vaschetto <valentino.vaschetto@windriver.com>
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The FreeBSD Documentation Project
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$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml,v 1.16 2001/06/13 11:36:49 tom Exp $
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$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml,v 1.17 2001/06/21 17:21:01 murray Exp $
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<chapter id="x11">
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manual page.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="x11-wm">
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<title>Desktop Environments</title>
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<para><emphasis>Written by &a.logo;, June 2001</emphasis></para>
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<para>This section describes the different desktop environments
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available for X-Windows on FreeBSD. For our purposes a "desktop
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environment" will mean anything ranging from a simple window
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manager, to a complete suite of desktop applications such as KDE
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or GNOME.</para>
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<sect2 id="x11-wm-gnome">
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<title>GNOME</title>
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<sect3 id="x11-wm-gnome-about">
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<title>About GNOME</title>
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<para>GNOME is a user-friendly desktop environment that
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enables users to easily use and configure their computers.
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GNOME includes a panel (for starting applications and displaying
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status), a desktop (where data and applications can be placed),
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a set of standard desktop tools and applications, and a set of
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conventions that make it easy for applications to cooperate and
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be consistent with each other. Users of other operating systems
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or environments should feel right at home using the powerful
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graphics-driven environment that GNOME provides.</para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="x11-wm-gnome-install">
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<title>Installing GNOME</title>
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<para>To install GNOME from the network, simply type:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r gnome</userinput></screen>
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<para>If you would prefer to build GNOME from source, then use
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the ports tree:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome</userinput>
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&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
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<para>Once GNOME is installed, we must have the X server start
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GNOME instead of a default window mananger. If you have
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already customized your <filename>.xinitrc</filename> file
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then you should simply replace the line that starts your
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current window manager with one that starts
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<filename>/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-wm</filename> instead. If
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you haven't added anything special to your configuration
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file, then it is enough to simply type:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-wm" > ~/.xinirc</userinput></screen>
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<para>That's it. Now just type 'startx' and you will be in the
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GNOME desktop environment.</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="x11-wm-kde2">
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<title>KDE2</title>
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<sect3 id="x11-wm-kde2-about">
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<title>About KDE2</title>
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<para>KDE is an easy to use contemporary desktop environment.
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Some of the things that KDE brings to the user are:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>A beautiful contemporary desktop</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>A desktop exhibiting complete network transparency</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>An integrated help system allowing for convenient,
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consistent access to help on the use of the KDE desktop and its
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applications</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Consistent look and feel of all KDE applications</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Standardized menu and toolbars, keybindings, color-schemes, etc.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Internationalization: KDE is available in more than 40 languages</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Centralized consisted dialog driven desktop configuration</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>A great number of useful KDE applications</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>KDE has an office application suite based on KDE's
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KParts technology consisting of a spread-sheet, a
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presentation application, an organizer, a news client and
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more. KDE is also comes with a web browser called Konqeuror,
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which represents already a solid competitor to other
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existing web browsers on Unix systems. More information on
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KDE can be found on the <ulink url="http://www.kde.org">KDE
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website</ulink></para>
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</sect3>
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<sect3 id="x11-wm-kde2-install">
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<title>Installing KDE2</title>
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<para>At the time this was written, a package for kde2 doesn't
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exist yet. No problem! We'll just use the ports to install
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it. To install KDE2, do this:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/x11/kde2</userinput>
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&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
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<para>That fetched all the necessary files from the internet,
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compiled kde2, installed kde2, and cleaned up after itself
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after the install.</para>
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<para>Now you're going to have to tell the X server to launch
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kde2 instead of a default window manager. Do this by typing
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this:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/startkde" > ~/.xinitrc</userinput></screen>
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<para>Now everytime you go into X-Windows, kde2 will be your
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desktop.</para>
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</sect3>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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