I just installed OpenCDE1 on Gentoo.
Its not hard to install1. It requires wxMotif and OpenMotif. On Gentoo, there already is an OpenMotif package, so wxMotif is the only package I needed to install manually. I downloaded the wxMotif 2.8.11 (you can download wxWidgets to compile of course, but you only need the Motif port)
$ ./configure --with-motif $ gmake $ sudo gmake install $ sudo ldconfig
Then I compiled the OpenCDE 0.2.6.
$ cd opencde/src $ gmake $ cd .. $ sudo cp -r bin etc share /usr/local/
For configuration of X, it depends on how you start your X. Basically, just replace exec your_current_wm_de with exec opencde in ~/.xinitrc, it should do the job if you already has that line.
In the screenshot above, I have conky, xcompmgr, firefox, and urxvtc + tmux running. You can run stuff you used to run. Also, I used xrandr to enable my external screen, it looked working. Well, sort of. When I dragged a window over the second screen, the left edge of a window will not be allowed to cross. So that is as far as a window can go.
The memory usage is not so light, dtpanel used 13 MB. Thats twice as Fluxbox needs. I dont know if its possible to not use dtpanel. dtwm and mwm use about 6.1 MB.
But I think those are not something would stop you using OpenCDE, the documentation is. I found no documentation. I had no idea how to configure it, there are some files in ~/.opencde, so I have put urxvt in menu. The syntax is not hard to understand. But the rest of OpenCDE, I have no idea what or how I can do.
Note
According to the first comment by Woomia and the documentation1, wxMotif is no longer needed. I didnt try the new version 0.4.2 or 0.4.3, just want to make sure you get the new information before you read this post. (2011-02-11)
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I work on OpenCDE. You should try 0.4.2. Tons of improvements and no more wxWidgets dependencies. As for documentation, its scattered because OpenCDE is largely in flux. Im the guy who is going to write the documentation once OpenCDE is stable. In the meantime, visit the OpenCDE forums.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads-up. I have added a notice at the beginning of the post, so people will know wxMotif isnt needed anymore.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could do a follow-up about the new version of OpenCDE, but currently I am not interested in other WM/DE.