Moving to FreeBSD desktop

Posted on: Thu, 07/25/2013 - 14:53 By: dae

Again, my desktop somehow stop working, so I reinstall with FreeBSD and kde4.

This is what I have to do

Ports

x system

/usr/port/x11/xorg /usr/port/x11/kde4

after that edit rc.conf and add dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" kdm4_enable="YES" linux_enable="YES"

reboot to kde4 and install these ports

/usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs git mercurial smb4k

Fix Firefox

Firefox is ugly in the Default FreeBSD ports. This is what I have to do.

ports

gtk-qt4-engineqt qtcurve-gtk2

after that, go to start menu --> system setting --> gtk style and fonts --> choose qtcurve as widget

I got these from http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=17786

Flash Plugins

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html

Vim

Initially, I cannot get gvim to work. See these

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/180417 http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=40610

It works when I compiled the port with "make -DWITH_OPTIONS install clean"

KeePass

Have to install mono and /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/libgdiplus