Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:11:24 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About "how the GUI should look like after installation!" Message-ID: <45496FEC.6080509@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0611011843k66bc24ady84b06b5942bd25d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061102011805.88918.qmail@web60523.mail.yahoo.com> <20061102024053.0fc68d78@loki.starkstrom.lan> <d7195cff0611011843k66bc24ady84b06b5942bd25d0@mail.gmail.com>
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illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de> 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
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