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I am using
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/wmaker
In my .xinitrc file but its not working I installed the gnustep, windowmaker, xorg and gnustep-app meta port on FreeBSD 16.0 CURRENT any help? Any help pulling on all the maintainers files in the macports would be appreciated. I go to FreeBSD's GitHub and download the CVS files of FreeBSD is it POSIX? The only Linux Distros I can tolerate are Debian because of the KFreeBSD kernel and Oracle Linux. OpenBSD is too easy. I have NeXtStep sources from when I was younger. Linux does always crash. When I startx it launches XTERM. not Windowmaker. gnustep-app is really just GAP.
it's 3:29 EST I have to eat lunch. I ate a Turkey sandwich and a Vanilla yogurt.
https://www.rami.org.il/blog/freebsd-window-maker/#getting-started-with-window-maker
I use nano and sudo using just exec wmaker in the .xinitrc file still doesn't work. the above link helped now its looking for a XAuthority file.
Now .Xauthority I can startx '(with enable_xauth=1)` for all users. just not Windowmaker I am using ZSH not Bash
I may use DOAS silimar to RUNAS and VIM I just dont like VIM. you really should use doas and window maker together.
did a pkg remove zsh and a pkg install bash still no dice.
Microsoft uses a Stacking Window Manager
I used FreeBSD 15.0 RELEASE yesterday and it worked but I was getting a certificate error late in the day and pkg wouldn't load
Thank You,
Jonathan Moore tested INTJ-T
"I could have had all of this" -- Macphisto at the Vatican.
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norayr commentedon Mar 27, 2026
jonromanovmoore commentedon Mar 27, 2026
I use
shutdown -p nowand startx in the consoleyes windowmaker is in /usr/local/bin
no I dont enable XTERM in the .profile.
I'll try to clean up XKB_DEFAULT_RULES message from ZSH
cleaned the .profile file by removing the ZSH message and didn't need the Auth file still not Windowmaker just X.
I'm in a Virtual Machine on my Mac Pro 2024 ARM64
nothing to do with
pkg autoremoveBuilt a UNIX-LIke machine in 2014 with Cairo-Dock or Docky and a Auqua Theme from Gnome Look with GTK+ I got as far as installing the GCD. Tried the Common Desktop Environment in 2022.
Getting on the scale to see if I want dinner might just make coffee. Weight still the same making dinner. Preheated the Parmesan fish its baking. Going to the grocery store in a couple of days with $150. Please I'm 47 and in a college town I need some peace. I have $700K in M&A equity I might just ask the landlord to buy the home. The guy downstairs has until 11pm. I use my Sony Headphones. Now I'm just going the the United Nations with my girlfriend.
Listen to Morgonstämning Ur Peer Gynt Grieg Klassiska Favoriter in my headphones.
I tried
pkg info | moreand I couldn't find a conflict. All I can think is is that is Wayland. I am in Virtual Box I might need to install guest additions.After further investigation FreeBSD is a MS-DOS Microsoft Distro with WIne Apple Typography I started with OpenBSD maybe I should use it.
Please Read X11
OpenBSD at Apple they also say FreeBSD but IDK.
Getting it to work on OpenBSD trying the new Gershwin desktop it was the Darwin desktop. I believe Gershwin build was probably Darwin build officially from Apple Computer I stutter so did Darwin they just didn't what that out. I'm just refactoring Gershwin to Darwin It was just Backbone when I was younger.
it is just sudo
pkg_add -i gnustep-desktopPackages to Install on OpenBSD for command line-based GNUstep applic
The above link helps just still only launches X when I type startx maybe I need to state it some other way.
GNUStepUserGuide I'ml trying a stable branch and starker kit.
I'm waiting on downloads from Regular servers like KDE and the academic JEOS I used at MIT just used Cygwin. I'm a UVa Alumni Might be XNU or MACH.
Making coffee.
Tthe 32-bit Starter kit works it must be XNU and MACH I imported the GPG Key at savananh I'm just not sending them, my mailing adrees I dont want anything stolen.
I'm closing the issue.
Microsoft need's olympic platinum at the Open Group. Like Intel
'Them Bones' are tired after 25 years in industry I finally have my BYO Code Center Premium for Apple and Microsoft kinda a Jar of Flies I'm trying to make it a Jennie bottle.
[-].Xinitrc file[/-][+].xinitrc file[/+]jonromanovmoore commentedon Apr 5, 2026
To take advantage of all the features from the GNUstep framework, you should add the following lines to your ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc:
. ${TRUEPREFIX}/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh # (gnustep-make)
${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/gdnc # notifications daemon (gnustep-base)
${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/gpbs # clipboard/pasteboard daemon (gnustep-back)
${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/make_services # update service cache (gnustep-gui)
To enable gdomap(8), the distributed objects lookup daemon (gnustep-base) add gdomap to the pkg_scripts variable in
/etc/rc.conf.local.
pkg_add gdmrcctl enable gdm # or sddm, or lightdm
rcctl start gdm
To boot in single user mode use
boot -shttps://openports.pl/path/meta/gnustep