XFree86 sans KDE/Gnome?

TomW · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 6 Location: London

Bit new to the totally cut down install Linux lark, been playing with other distros for ~2 years now though. Anyhoo, is there any way I can get X emergered without using either of the bloated wms (I want to use black/fluxbox eventually). Bearing in mind it's on a 2GB disk, I don't have the room to emerge either and then remove them later.

Apologies for the somewhat stupid question but I've spent all day trying to get my head round it, with no luck

Thanks guys,
Tom

fghellar · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 2:29 am Post subject:

'emerge xfree' will do it...
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TomW · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 6 Location: London

See, I tried that, it all went OK until it came to configuring/running X, i appeared to have none of the required executables (startx, xf86config etc etc), is there a seperate port to build?

fghellar · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 2:43 am Post subject:

Hmmm... That's weird. Let's start with the basic things...

1. Did the build of xfree complete successfully? (It needs a lot of space to build.)

2. The startx and xf86config executables should be in /usr/X11R6/bin/. Check if they are there.

3. Is /usr/X11R6/bin included in your PATH? ('echo $PATH' to check.)
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TomW · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 6 Location: London

As far as I could tell, yes it built fine, it threw up no errors about being out of space anyway.

I'm currently re-installing the box, as my first install was a bit messy, I will bear the above in mind and post again later.

Many thanks for your time and once again I apologise for asking such a seemingly obvious question

fghellar · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 3:03 am Post subject:

The obvious is only obvious after you realize it.

Come back if you have any problems. And if you don't, too...

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echeslack · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 3:51 pm Post subject:

Your PATH probably wasn't updated after the ebuild. source /etc/profile should do it, or you can log out and log back in.

-ewen

TomW · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 6 Location: London

Aha, re-emerged xfree earlier, I now have the executables, everything should be fine from here on, here's hoping

Cheers guys.