- From: Andrew Pam <xanni@glasswings.com.au>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 22:38:48 +1100
- To: Corne Beerse <beerse@ats.nld.alcatel.nl>, Kent Berggren <kenta@sr.se>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 12:21:16PM +0100, Corne Beerse wrote: > Kent Berggren wrote: > > I am using FreeBSD and I do not have motif. Is there a way around it? > You don't need motif for amaya, all you need is X11. If your hardware is 'PC > compatible', then have a look for XFree86. > Motif can be seen as 'just a window manager'. This is factually incorrect. Motif is an interface toolkit, not a window manager (though there is also a Motif window manager). Applications written to this toolkit do require a Motif library as well as X11 unless you run a binary which was compiled with the Motif libraries statically linked. > > I do not like to use the linux-binaries and I dont like to bay Motif. > XFree86 comes with most linux distributions. XFree86 does not include Motif-compatible libraries. > > Is there not a "free" version of Motif? Yes, try "Lesstif" by the Hungry Programmers (see lesstif.org I believe). > Have a look at KDE (also available with some linux distributions). This is a desktop environment (and also includes a window manager), which is not required and does not provide any libraries that Amaya uses, though of course it is possible to run Amaya under it (or any other desktop environment such as GNOME or CDE). Hope that helps, *** Xanni *** -- mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Technical VP, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Technical Editor, Glass Wings http://www.sericyb.com.au/sc/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics P.O. Box 26, East Melbourne VIC 8002 Australia Phone +61 3 96511511
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