changing wm in solaris

[sysctl]

I want to change my window manager in solaris.. How is this done? Can I install blackbox on solaris and have it start instead of god awful CDE? I know I have seen others running it but I dont know where to change my window manager other then installing packages that do it automatically. I would rather do it myself.

thanks
sysctl

[Piix4]

If you did as I did and are using x86 arch then,
you will probably need Xf86 for solaris ftp.xfree86.org and if you want a wm with it say maybe gcc, binutils, make and some other package I can't remember the name of from here www.sunfreeware.com (http://www.sunfreeware.com)
and then I guess get the source for blackbox and compile, though if you get gcc 3.0.1 then you may have to edit every single .hh file so that declarations like, friend somename become friend class somename.

Good Luck
Che Lives!

[ 10 November 2001: Message edited by: piix4 ]

[sysctl]

Well,
This is not X86 SOlaris... This is on my Blade1000.... I see there are kde packages that will automatically install it but I would much rather use blackbox and set it up from there. Any ideas from anyone?

thanks

[epseps]

Originally posted by sysctl:
<STRONG>Well,
This is not X86 SOlaris... This is on my Blade1000.... I see there are kde packages that will automatically install it but I would much rather use blackbox and set it up from there. Any ideas from anyone?

thanks</STRONG>

First instal the software from the Extras Cd for Solaris 8 (if you have it) make sure you get all the goodies so you don't have to download it from the Sunfreeware site (I always have problems with that site but maybe that is just me). Change your shell path to include /opt/sfw/bin and then go download the source to Blackbox (unless Sunfreeware already has a binary of it somewhere).

Unpack it with gtar (Solaris' tar sucks) and try to compile it with gmake and gmake install. You will probably have to do some hacking to the Makefile, in fact it could be a real pain in the ***. once you get it installed post here and I should be back at work in front of my Ultra 5 running Solaris 8 and I'll check some documents and see how you can modify the chooser screen to include Balckbox.

Btw, how do you like the Blade 1000? A brief comparison between that and a PC would be cool.