From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 23:41:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946C716A405 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:41:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CBE013C43E for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:41:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2CNf2ou065985; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l2CNf24r065984; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:41:02 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Dima Sorkin Message-ID: <20070312234101.GA65947@thought.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: choosing window manager 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: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:41:02 -0000 On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:28:19PM +0200, Dima Sorkin wrote: > Hi. > 1) How do I start KDE / FVWM2/ GNOME / TWM / Windowmaker ? > ( I've choosed them during installation ) > > 2) Is there some nice "welcome" program, > that allows to choose a session kind ? > > Dima. > > On FreeBSD 6.2 i386, > >startx -- starts TWM > > root> gdm -- starts gnome desktop manager, > which allows to start only GNOME > (I was used that it allows to launch any WM, > but in this case - only GNOME). A few years ago I created a ctwm.desktop (somewhere, I forget where), and was able to use GNOME || CTWM with gdm. I cobbled together a kde.desktop and then was able to run KDE using gdm as well. So gdm can be flexible. gary > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix