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I still have CDE running on some Sun (Solaris) machines here. I never got to like it much and I always preferred CLI. Anyway these are archaic machines from the nineties and I suppose that CDE was much better than the desktop of Windows 98.
Doesnt work here. All I can see is the mouse cursor and the help Window that appears when starting CDE. But I cannot move the window, seems that the Motif decorations or the WM is not activated...
Last edited by Bindestreck; 09-03-2012 at 08:01 AM.
Distribution: Slackware on my laptop. Various distros in VMs for testing.
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CDE is only supported on Slackware 14.0 RC 64 bit. No one has tested it on 14.0 RC4 32 bit.
As for previous versions of Slackware, CDE has never been shown to work on them but thanks for trying. CDE will tested on 14.0 once it's released. I suggest waiting until then.
Note: you will have to uninstall "lesstif" prior to installing OpenMotif.
3. Link Nawk calls to gawk using a symlink:
Code:
ln -s /bin/gawk /bin/nawk
4. Set rcpbind into insecure mode;
Code:
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.rpc
/etc/rc.d/rc.rpc start
5. Download the CDE sources and run, at minimum, a configure buildscript similar to this (Slackware 64 only) to configure, make, and install the sources:
Distribution: Slackware on my laptop. Various distros in VMs for testing.
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Wait, are trying to install CDE on Slackware from the tarball? If you are, it won't work. The instructions specifically state on the wiki that you must build from git for Slackware.
Distribution: Slackware on my laptop. Various distros in VMs for testing.
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News: There is a new tarball of CDE. All the changes in git until this moment are now in this tarball. It's a lot of stuff but most importantly, you can build CDE on Slackware now from the tarball.
Note, this has only be been tested on Slackware64 14.0 RC4. All other versions are either unknown or unsupported. The tarball will be tested again when 14.0 is released.
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