From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 8 12:18: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F86B14E52 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 12:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elgreen@iname.com) Received: from ehome.local.net ([24.9.114.169]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990808191507.GADR27077.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@ehome.local.net> for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 12:15:07 -0700 From: Eric Lee Green Organization: Myself @ Home To: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 12:09:47 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <000801bee1b1$7625c3c0$e818d718@mountaincable.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99080812153301.00360@ehome.local.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 08 Aug 1999, Barry Goldman wrote: > >%_Hello. I am thinking of purchasing FreeBSD 3.2. and need some assistance. >Does FreeBSD 3.2 come with a window manager once it's installed by default if >you select to install an X server? Does FreeBSD work well on laptops? FreeBSD defaults to 'twm', a very simple, primitive window manager that comes with the X11 distribution. However, there is a large number of window managers in the "packages" directory that you can install. My personal favorite is KDE. You can use /stand/sysinstall to access the "packages" directories (two of the CD-ROMs have a "packages" directory on them), or you can manually mount the CD-ROM, cd to the proper directory, and do a "pkg_add" on the package you want. Either way gets you the result you want. Oh, a third option is o access the whole packages system via FTP (using /stand/sysinstall), this will give you a list of all packages available, not just a list of the ones on the particular CD-ROM. Then you can either write them down and install them off your CD-ROM, or if you have a high speed Internet connection you can go ahead and install via FTP. -- Eric Lee Green http://members.tripod.com/e_l_green mail: e_l_green@hotmail.com ^^^^^^^ Burdening Microsoft with SPAM! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message