From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 04:11:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB54316A407 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 04:11:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F8C43D49 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 04:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id kA24BPve007779 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:11:25 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.1.152] (shemminger.cs.washington.edu [128.208.1.152]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id kA24BOwe001685 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:11:25 -0800 Message-ID: <45496FEC.6080509@u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:11:24 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060811) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20061102011805.88918.qmail@web60523.mail.yahoo.com> <20061102024053.0fc68d78@loki.starkstrom.lan> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.2.1.279297, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2006.11.1.195432 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_MEDIA_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __STOCK_SUBJ_9 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: About "how the GUI should look like after installation!" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:11:26 -0000 illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: > >> > I logged in and typed >> > 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!). >> > Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand shells. >> > That's all I can see! No taskbars! No background picture (greying >> > grinded dots: like pixels in a low definition image). There're just >> > four squared box (shell). > >> You need to install a window manager. > > twm(1) idn't good enough for you? > > evilwm > blackbox > e16 (or whatever they have changed the name too this week) > aewm > > are all fairly degenerate wastes of memory. > > But it will not do much good unless you > have also bothered to install browsers and such. > Try xfce4. It's fairly light and more functional than most WM's / DE's for it's size. Don't install the meta package though, or trim off stuff that you don't need as you feel fit. -Garrett