Other CDE in 2024

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fmc000

I was watching a YT video about the history of X11 and when I saw the chapter about CDE I almost cried out of nostalgia. Anyways, I am a DE user (XFCE+SDDM) and would love to try CDE on 14.1 so I'm asking if any CDE user can help me with which packages to use as there are different releases of the package in the Ports. Also I would love to know if there are utilities that integrate with CDE that can effectively be used.

Any CDE user would like to chime in?
 
If you search for CDE in the forums you'll likely find what you need, the port maintainer hangs around here a bit.
But at a minimum:
pkg install cde

is a start. Pay attention to the message at the end of install.
 
You only need to start dtcms if you plan to use the CDE calendar function. Otherwise that instruction can be ignored.
 
fmc000 said:
Also I would love to know if there are utilities that integrate with CDE that can effectively be used.
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I do recall writing a dtmount for OpenCDE to facilitate mounting disks but I can't seem to track it down in a public repo. It was quite limited anyway admittedly.

This developer has written a few useful tools that integrate (or replace) some of the ones built into CDE.

I still think it would be cool to host a "games jam" kind of competition event where a dozen of us all work on a small but useful CDE component for 24 or 48 hours.
 
cy@ said:
You only need to start dtcms if you plan to use the CDE calendar function. Otherwise that instruction can be ignored.
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But the others about rpcbind, inetd (including line in inetd.conf) and services are needed?
 
kpedersen said:
I do recall writing a dtmount for OpenCDE to facilitate mounting disks but I can't seem to track it down in a public repo. It was quite limited anyway admittedly.
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OpenCDE is an abandoned project.

The CDE home page is here. The repo is here.

kpedersen said:
This developer has written a few useful tools that integrate (or replace) some of the ones built into CDE.
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His mwm, emwm, is in ports.

kpedersen said:
I still think it would be cool to host a "games jam" kind of competition event where a dozen of us all work on a small but useful CDE component for 24 or 48 hours.
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That could be a separate port or separate ports depending on CDE.
 
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kpedersen said:
We abandoned it because the "real" CDE came out ;)

However some useful utilities that weren't in the original CDE can sometimes still be salvaged.
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It was abandoned by the upstream developer. We removed it after upstream had abandoned it.

;)
 
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Check the upstream repo first before making assumptions. ;)
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arcfide (part of our small team) made a Git mirror of the main repo (ours was CVS but we gave out snapshots via cvsweb. Quite a cool setup). He was "midstream" ;)

My server (devio.us or a broken T23 under my TV at the time) was proper upstream.

It looks like the last revision from the CVS was rev617. Quite a lot of work went into that project. I even started motifmm (a C++ abstraction layer around Motif).
 
Wow, thanks for all your answers, much appreciated.

A few questions, if you don't mind:
  • is it possible to launch CDE throug a DM like SDDM?
  • how can I use emwm as the window manager?
 
Jumping on what kpedersen says, .xsession/.Xsession I think is the standard file for most DMs.
With respect to CDE the "set LANG=C" I think is a key. I have my LANG set to something else and launching CDE gets weird.
 
OK, thanks everyone for all the comments. I managed to start a CDE session, I will probaly use it from time to time but I believe I will stick to XFCE for my normal use.
 
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