Openmotif on freeBSD

[setti]

Hello,

This is my first post, and i'm so happy to join you through this forum ;)

I want to install openmotif (mtw) how can i do that in freebsd platform ?

Thanks

[DrJ]

% cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/open-motif
% su (change to root)
# make install clean
# ^D
% rehash

That assumes you have a reasonably up-to-date ports tree installed.

[vivek]

Welcome to FreeBSD forums!

Wow, good to see motif fans :e

[DrJ]

I use it as part of a good graphics package (grace). Man it feels old.

[setti]

Hi guys,

I get some error message when i excute :
# make install clean
I assume that my wireless dial (LG-LDU-800) isn't configured for an internet access. but this is not a big problem because i have precompiled open-motif package in freebsd dvd.

dear DrJ how i can launch open-motif ? actually i use $ startx mwm but i get a numerous errors ?

Thanks

[adamk]

Without the errors, it's hard to tell what the problem is.

Also, mwm is not openmotif. mwm is a window manager that uses motif. There is a disctinction there.

Adam

[setti]

Without the errors, it's hard to tell what the problem is.

Also, mwm is not openmotif. mwm is a window manager that uses motif. There is a disctinction there.

Adam

Ok, but after adding openmotif toolkit package i can able to find a mwm in /usr/X11R6/bin ! my principal aim is to launch openmotif. how ???:(

Thanks

[adamk]

openmotif is not an application that you launch. It is a GUI toolkit that you can use to write/run other applications.

[DrJ]

That's right. I use it as a dependency to the plotting program "grace". To me it feels really archaic; I wish they would switch to either qt or gtk, but oh well...