CDE on Slackware 14.2

M0M0 · 10-05-2020, 03:29 PM

Has someone actually installed CDE? I also managed to compile it with ponce's SlackBuild script but running installpkg on the created package spits out hundreds of "grep: Unmatched [, [^, [:, [., or [=" and other grep errors; it seems that the installation gets caught in a loop

M0M0 · 10-05-2020, 04:03 PM

Never mind, I changed the LANG variable to C, since this was recommended in the README, but it seems that that caused some problems, changing it back solved them and I was able to install CDE. Works great!

burning · 10-12-2020, 08:23 AM

If anyone's interested, it looks like the NsCDE team have reworked it for staged installation now so we can now package it.

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE/issues/26

dchmelik · 10-16-2020, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by burning

If anyone's interested, it looks like the NsCDE team have reworked it for staged installation now so we can now package it.

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE/issues/26

Great, but some months ago, compiling crashed, I reported the error and only received a cryptic/unhelpful response. Did you or someone actually manage to compile NsCDE or it just might work in future? I don't mind testing/compiling myself but would need actual information if something goes wrong like when there's something to report/fix...

burning · 10-16-2020, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by dchmelik

Great, but some months ago, compiling crashed, I reported the error and only received a cryptic/unhelpful response. Did you or someone actually manage to compile NsCDE or it just might work in future? I don't mind testing/compiling myself but would need actual information if something goes wrong like when there's something to report/fix...

Afraid I have yet to get around to it myself. I'll probably try in a month or two when I've got a few projects I'm working on out of the way. If you happen to try before me though, I'd be interested in hearing how it went

dchmelik · 03-22-2022, 02:57 AM

What about on 15?!

Jeebizz · 03-22-2022, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by dchmelik

What about on 15?!

Dunno, I also haven't seen any slackbuilds of NsCDE on slackbuilds.org

qunying · 03-22-2022, 04:38 PM

I tried NsCDE, it is so slow on my Intel i7-8700 (12) @ 4.600GHz with 16G of memory, barely usable.

edorig · 03-23-2022, 02:46 PM

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I tried NsCDE, it is so slow on my Intel i7-8700 (12) @ 4.600GHz with 16G of memory, barely usable.

That's why it is better to use the original instead of the imitation.
Joke aside, how is that possible ? I thought NsCDE was a FVWM theme coupled with Qt/Gtk themes that recreated the look and feel of CDE and some Python programs. Is one of these programs taking all the memory and slowing the computer by the incessant swapping ?

Jeebizz · 03-23-2022, 02:49 PM

I don't recall having any issues with NsCDE , but then again that was on --current prior to 15.0 and it was in a VM. Seemed snappy enough to me. Also, unless the devs of CDE itself resolved the issue of CDE and rpc-bind security issue, I wouldn't touch it.

qunying · 03-23-2022, 07:34 PM

As of version 2.2.4a, it no longer requires rpcbind to run in insecure mode.
https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopen...ee/cde/HISTORY

Jeebizz · 03-23-2022, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by qunying

As of version 2.2.4a, it no longer requires rpcbind to run in insecure mode.
https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopen...ee/cde/HISTORY

Well at least there is that, but are the directories still hard coded in the sources? I think that was the main reason as slackbuilds.org didn't want to accept any submissions? I dunno I could be wrong.

qunying · 03-23-2022, 07:58 PM

Most of them have been lifted in the git trunk, as the build system move to autoconf.
Maybe the next release will fix all the path problems.

dchmelik · 03-23-2022, 08:11 PM

Original CDE and NsCDE are both pretty fast--much faster than KDE (intermittently slow)--on my AMD Ryzen 9s (3950x, 5950x) with 16 to 64GB RAM... but I'm hoping both will appear on SlackBuilds.org (SBo)... I do several other SlackBuilds but I avoid maintaining/programming GUIs.

Jeebizz · 03-23-2022, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by dchmelik

Original CDE and NsCDE are both pretty fast--much faster than KDE (intermittently slow)--on my AMD Ryzen 9s (3950x, 5950x) with 16 to 64GB RAM... but I'm hoping both will appear on SlackBuilds.org (SBo)... I do several other SlackBuilds but I avoid maintaining/programming GUIs.

I don't doubt it, but to be fair I am impressed how fast KDE5 is on my system starting up. Seems a bit faster than MATE, and I ditched MATE1.26 because the panels were randomly crashing on me for some reason.