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<chapter id="desktop">
<chapterinfo>
<authorgroup>
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<author>
<firstname>Christophe</firstname>
<surname>Juniet</surname>
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</author>
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</chapterinfo>
<title>Desktop Applications</title>
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<para>While &os; is popular as a server for its performance and
stability, it is also suited for day-to-day use as a desktop.
With over &os.numports; applications available as <link
linkend="packages-using">packages</link> or <link
linkend="ports-using">ports</link>, it is easy to build a
With over &os.numports; applications available as &os; packages or
ports, it is easy to build a
customized desktop that runs a wide variety of desktop
applications. This chapter demonstrates how to install some
popular desktop applications effortlessly using packages or the
popular desktop applications using packages or the
&os; Ports Collection.</para>
<note>
<para>Users who prefer to install a pre-built desktop
version of FreeBSD rather than configuring one from scratch
should refer to the <ulink url="http://www.pcbsd.org/">pcbsd.org
website.</ulink></para>
</note>
<para>As &os; features <link linkend="linuxemu">&linux; binary
compatibility</link>, many applications developed for &linux;
can be installed on a &os; desktop. Many of the ports using
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OpenOffice</application></entry>
<entry><literal>openoffice</literal></entry>
<entry><filename
role="package">editors/openoffice-3</filename></entry>
role="package">editors/openoffice-4</filename></entry>
</row>
<row>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Install additional software using packages or
ports.</para>
ports as described in <xref linkend="ports"/>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Install X and a window manager as described in <xref linkend="x11"/>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Enable &linux; binary compatibility.</para>
<para>Enable &linux; binary compatibility as described in <xref linkend="linuxemu"/>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For information on how to configure a multimedia
environment, refer to <xref linkend="multimedia"/>. For
information on how to set up and use electronic mail, refer to
<xref linkend="mail"/>.</para>
environment, refer to <xref linkend="multimedia"/>.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="desktop-browsers">
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<entry><application>Firefox</application></entry>
<entry>medium</entry>
<entry>heavy</entry>
<entry>&os; and &linux; versions are available</entry>
<entry>&os;, &linux;, and localized versions are available</entry>
</row>
<row>
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<primary><application>Firefox</application></primary>
</indexterm>
<para><application>Firefox</application> is a modern, free,
<para><application>Firefox</application> is an
open source browser that is fully ported to &os;. It
features a standards-compliant HTML display engine, tabbed
browsing, popup blocking, extensions, improved security, and
more. <application>Firefox</application> is based on the
<application>Mozilla</application> codebase.</para>
<para>Install the package of the latest release version of
<application>Firefox</application> by typing:</para>
<para>To install the package of the latest release version of
<application>Firefox</application>, type:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r firefox</userinput></screen>
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role="package">www/firefox-esr-i18n</filename>.</para>
<para>The Ports Collection can instead be used to compile
the desired version of <application>firefox</application> from
the desired version of <application>Firefox</application> from
source code. This example builds <filename
role="package">www/firefox</filename>, where
<literal>firefox</literal> can be replaced with the ESR or
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<sect3 id="moz-java-plugin">
<title>Firefox and &java; Plugin</title>
<note>
<para>The following sections assume that
<application>Firefox</application> is already
installed.</para>
</note>
<para><filename role="package">java/icedtea-web</filename>
<para>The installation of
<application>Firefox</application> does not include &java;
support. However, <filename role="package">java/icedtea-web</filename>
provides a free software web browser plugin for running
Java applets. It can be installed as a package. To
alternately compile the port:</para>
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</indexterm>
<para>A native &adobe; &flash; plugin is not available for &os;.
However, a software layer (wrapper) for running the &linux;
version of the plugin exists. This wrapper also provides
However, a software wrapper for running the &linux;
version of the plugin is available. This wrapper also provides
support for other browser plugins such as &realplayer;.</para>
<para>To install and enable this plugin:</para>
<para>To install and enable this plugin, perform these steps:</para>
<procedure>
<step>
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<sect3 id="moz-swfdec-flash-plugin">
<title>Firefox and Swfdec &flash; Plugin</title>
<para>Swfdec is the library for decoding and rendering &flash;
animations. Swfdec-Mozilla is a plugin for
<para><application>Swfdec</application> is a decoder and renderer for &flash;
animations. <application>Swfdec-Mozilla</application> is a plugin for
<application>Firefox</application> browsers that uses the
Swfdec library for playing SWF files. It is still in heavy
development.</para>
Swfdec library for playing SWF files.</para>
<para>To install the package:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/www/swfdec-plugin</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
<para>Restart the browser for this plugin to take
effect.</para>
<para>Restart the browser to activate this plugin.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
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as a package is not available due to licensing restrictions.
Then install either the <filename
role="package">www/opera-linuxplugins</filename> port
or package. This example compiles both from ports:</para>
or package. This example compiles both applications from ports:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin11</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput>
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all the currently available plugins.</para>
<para>To add the <application>&java;</application> plugin,
follow the <link linkend="moz-java-plugin">instructions for
Firefox</link>.</para>
follow the instructions in <xref linkend="moz-java-plugin"/>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
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<primary><application>Konqueror</application></primary>
</indexterm>
<para><application>Konqueror</application> is part of <filename
role="package">x11/kde4-baseapps</filename>.
<application>Konqueror</application> is more than a web
<para><application>Konqueror</application> is more than a web
browser as it is also a file manager and a multimedia
viewer.</para>
viewer. It is included in the <filename
role="package">x11/kde4-baseapps</filename> package or port.</para>
<para><application>Konqueror</application> supports WebKit as
well as its own KHTML. WebKit is a rendering engine used by
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<sect3 id="chromium-java-plugin">
<title>Chromium and &java; Plugin</title>
<note>
<para>The following sections assume that
<application>Chromium</application> is already
installed.</para>
</note>
<para>To install &java; plugin support, follow the instructions
<para>The installation of
<application>Chromium</application> does not include &java;
support. To install &java; plugin support, follow the instructions
in <xref linkend="moz-java-plugin"/>.</para>
<para>Once &java; support is installed, start
<application>Chromium</application>, and enter
<application>Chromium</application> and enter
<literal>about:plugins</literal> in the address bar.
IcedTea-Web should be listed as one of the installed
plugins.</para>
<para>If <application>Chromium</application> does not display
the IcedTea-Web plugin, run the following commands, and
the IcedTea-Web plugin, run the following commands and
restart the web browser:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mkdir -p /usr/local/share/chromium/plugins
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<para>Configuring <application>Chromium</application> and
&adobe;&nbsp;&flash; is similar to the
<link linkend="moz-flash-plugin">instructions for
Firefox</link>. No additional configuration should be
the instructions in <xref linkend="moz-java-plugin"/>. No additional configuration should be
necessary, since <application>Chromium</application> is able
to use some plugins from other browsers.</para>
</sect3>
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<sect1 id="desktop-productivity">
<title>Productivity</title>
<para>When it comes to productivity, new users often look for a
good office suite or a friendly word processor. While some
<para>When it comes to productivity, new users often look for an
office suite or an easy-to-use word processor. While some
<link linkend="x11-wm">desktop environments</link> like
<application>KDE</application> already provide an office suite,
<application>KDE</application> provide an office suite,
there is no default productivity package. Several office
suites and word processors are available for &os;, regardless
of the installed desktop environment.</para>
suites and graphical word processors are available for &os;, regardless
of the installed window manager.</para>
<para>This section demonstrates how to install the following
popular productivity software and indicates if the application
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<secondary><application>Calligra</application></secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>The KDE community provides its desktop environment with
an office suite which can be used outside of
<para>The KDE desktop environment includes
an office suite which can be installed separately from
<application>KDE</application>.
<application>Calligra</application> includes standard
components that can be found in other office suites.
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and <application>Karbon</application> is used to draw
graphical documents.</para>
<para><filename
<para>In &os;, <filename
role="package">editors/calligra</filename> can be installed
as a package or a port. To install the package:</para>
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<para><application>AbiWord</application> is a free word
processing program similar in look and feel to
<application>&microsoft; Word</application>. It is suitable
for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth. It
<application>&microsoft; Word</application>. It
is fast, contains many features, and is user-friendly.</para>
<para><application>AbiWord</application> can import or export
many file formats, including some proprietary ones like
&microsoft; <filename>.doc</filename>.</para>
&microsoft; <filename>.rtf</filename>.</para>
<para>To install the <application>AbiWord</application>
package:</para>
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<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
<para>The <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/graphics.html">graphics</ulink>
category of the Ports Collection contains several
<para>The graphics category (<ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/graphics.html">freebsd.org/ports/graphics.html</ulink>)
of the Ports Collection contains several
<application>GIMP</application>-related plugins, help
files, and user manuals.</para>
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</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>On 1 June 2011, &oracle; donated the
<application>OpenOffice.org</application> code base to the
Apache Software Foundation.
<application>OpenOffice.org</application> is now known as
<application>Apache OpenOffice</application> and is developed
<para><application>Apache OpenOffice</application> is an open
source office suite which is developed
under the wing of the Apache Software Foundation's
Incubator.</para>
<para><application>Apache OpenOffice</application> includes all
of the mandatory applications in a complete office
Incubator. It includes all
of the applications found in a complete office
productivity suite: a word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation manager, and drawing program. Its user
interface is very similar to other office suites, and it can
interface is similar to other office suites, and it can
import and export in various popular file formats. It is
available in a number of different languages and
internationalization has been extended to interfaces, spell
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<application>Apache OpenOffice</application> is stable and
runs natively on &windows;, &solaris;, &linux;, &os;, and
&macos;&nbsp;X. More information about <application>Apache
OpenOffice</application> can be found on the <ulink
url="http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/">Apache
OpenOffice web site</ulink>. For &os; specific
information, and to directly download packages, refer to the
web site of the <ulink
url="http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/">&os; Apache
OpenOffice Porting Team</ulink>.</para>
OpenOffice</application> can be found at <ulink
url="http://openoffice.org/">openoffice.org</ulink>. For &os; specific
information refer to <ulink
url="http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/">porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/</ulink>.</para>
<para>To install the <application>Apache
OpenOffice</application> package:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r apache-openoffice</userinput></screen>
<note>
<para>When running a -RELEASE version of &os;, this should
work. Otherwise, download the latest package from the
website of the &os;
<application>Apache OpenOffice</application> Porting Team
and install it using &man.pkg.add.1;. Both the current
release and development versions are available for download
at this web site.</para>
</note>
<para>Once the package is installed, type the following command
to launch <application>Apache OpenOffice</application>:</para>
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<para>where <replaceable>X.Y.Z</replaceable> is the version
number of the installed version of
<application>Apache OpenOffice</application>.</para>
<note>
<para>During the first launch, some questions will be asked
and a <filename>.openoffice.org</filename> folder
<application>Apache OpenOffice</application>. The first time
<application>Apache OpenOffice</application> launches, some questions will be asked
and a <filename class="directory">.openoffice.org</filename> folder
will be created in the user's home directory.</para>
</note>
<para>If the desired <application>Apache
OpenOffice</application> package is not available, compiling
the port is still an opton. However, this requires a lot of
the port is still an option. However, this requires a lot of
disk space and a fairly long time to compile:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-3</userinput>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-4</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput></screen>
<note>
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<para><application>LibreOffice</application> is a free software
office suite developed by <ulink
url="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">The Document
Foundation</ulink>. It is compatible with other major
url="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">documentfoundation.org</ulink>. It is compatible with other major
office suites and available on a variety of platforms. It is
a rebranded fork of <application>OpenOffice.org</application>
which includes all of the mandatory applications in a complete
and includes applications found in a complete
office productivity suite: a word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation manager, drawing program, database management
program, and a tool for creating and editing mathematical
formula. It is available in a number of different languages
formul&aelig;. It is available in a number of different languages
and internationalization has been extended to interfaces,
spell checkers, and dictionaries.</para>
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<application>LibreOffice</application> is stable and runs
natively on &windows;, &linux;, &os;, and &macos;&nbsp;X.
More information about
<application>LibreOffice </application> can be found on the
<ulink url="http://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice web
site</ulink>.</para>
<application>LibreOffice </application> can be found at
<ulink url="http://www.libreoffice.org/">libreoffice.org</ulink>.</para>
<para>To install the English version of the
<application>LibreOffice</application> package:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r libreoffice</userinput></screen>
<para>The <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/editors.html">editors</ulink>
category of the Ports Collection contains several
<para>The editors category (<ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/editors.html">freebsd.org/ports/editors.html</ulink>)
of the Ports Collection contains several
localizations for <application>LibreOffice</application>.
When installing a localized package, replace
<literal>libreoffice</literal> with the name of the
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<screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>libreoffice</userinput></screen>
<note>
<para>During the first launch, some questions will be asked
and a <filename class="directory">.libreoffice</filename>
folder will be created in the user's home directory.</para>
</note>
<para>If the desired <application>LibreOffice</application>
package is not available, compiling the port is still an
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<para>To build a localized version,
<application>cd</application> into the port directory
of the desired language. Supported languages can be found
in the <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/editors.html">editors</ulink>
category of the Ports Collection.</para>
in the editors category (<ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/editors.html">freebsd.org/ports/editors.html</ulink>)
of the Ports Collection.</para>
</note>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<para>Some new document formats have gained popularity since
the advent of &unix; and the viewers they require may not be
available in the base system. This section demonstrates how to
install the following viewers:</para>
install the following document viewers:</para>
<informaltable frame="none" pgwide="1">
<tgroup cols="4">
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</indexterm>
<para>Many documents are now distributed as Portable Document
Format (PDF) files. One popular viewer for PDFs is
Format (PDF) files. One popular PDF viewer is
<application>&acrobat.reader;</application>,
released by &adobe; for &linux;. As &os; can run &linux;
binaries, it is also available for &os;. Due to
licensing restrictions, a package is not available so it must
licensing restrictions, a package is not available, meaning that this application must
be compiled from ports. Several localizations are
available from the <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/print.html">print</ulink>
category of the Ports Collection.</para>
available from the print category (<ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/print.html">freebsd.org/ports/print.html</ulink>)
of the Ports Collection.</para>
<para>This command installs the English version of
<application>&acrobat.reader; 9</application> from the Ports
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<secondary>viewing</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para><ulink
url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/">gv</ulink> is a
<para><application>gv</application> is a
&postscript; and PDF viewer. It is based on
<application>ghostview</application>, but has a nicer look
due to the <application>Xaw3d</application> library. It is
fast with a clean interface. <application>gv</application>
as it is based on the <application>Xaw3d</application> widget toolkit.
<application>gv</application>
has many configurable features, such as orientation, paper
size, scale, and anti-aliasing. Almost any operation can be
performed with either the keyboard or the mouse.</para>
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</indexterm>
<para>For users that prefer a small &os; PDF viewer,
<ulink
url="http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/">xpdf</ulink> provides a
<application>Xpdf</application> provides a
light-weight and efficient viewer which requires few
resources. It uses the standard X fonts and does not require
<application>&motif;</application> or any other X
toolkit.</para>
any additional
toolkits.</para>
<para>To install the <application>Xpdf</application>
package:</para>
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<primary><application>GQview</application></primary>
</indexterm>
<para><ulink
url="http://gqview.sourceforge.net/">GQview</ulink> is
<para><application>GQview</application> is
an image manager which supports viewing a file with a single
click, launching an external editor, and thumbnail previews.
It also features a slideshow mode and some basic file
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<primary><application>GnuCash</application></primary>
</indexterm>
<para><ulink
url="http://www.gnucash.org/">GnuCash</ulink> is part of the
<para><application>GnuCash</application> is part of the
<application>GNOME</application> effort to provide
user-friendly, yet powerful, applications to end-users.
<application>GnuCash</application> can be used to keep track
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<secondary><application>Gnumeric</application></secondary>
</indexterm>
<para><ulink
url="http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/index.shtml">Gnumeric</ulink>
<para><application>Gnumeric</application>
is a spreadsheet program developed by the
<application>GNOME</application> community. It features
convenient automatic <quote>guessing</quote> of user input
convenient automatic guessing of user input
according to the cell format with an autofill system for many
sequences. It can import files in a number of popular
formats, including <application>Excel</application>,
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<secondary><application>KMyMoney</application></secondary>
</indexterm>
<para><ulink
url="http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net">KMyMoney</ulink>
<para><application>KMyMoney</application>
is a personal finance application created by the
<application>KDE</application> community.
<application>KMyMoney</application> intends to provide and
incorporate all the important features found in commercial
<application>KMyMoney</application> aims to provide
the important features found in commercial
personal finance manager applications. It also highlights
ease-of-use and proper double-entry accounting among its
features. <application>KMyMoney</application> imports from
standard Quicken Interchange Format (QIF) files, tracks
standard <application>Quicken</application> QIF files, tracks
investments, handles multiple currencies, and provides a
wealth of reports.</para>