From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 04:18:20 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 9023E16A4A0 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 04:18:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from elessar@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3F643D5A for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 04:18:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elessar@bsdforen.de) Received: from localhost (mail [127.0.0.12]) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E1C4241C2; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:18:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bsdforen.de Received: from mail.bsdforen.de ([127.0.0.12]) by localhost (mail.bsdforen.de [127.0.0.12]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LzbuAbkkLAVh; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:18:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from loki.starkstrom.lan (p549CDEBC.dip.t-dialin.net [84.156.222.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 256194241C6; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:18:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:18:12 +0100 From: Joerg Pernfuss To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061102051812.3471c95f@loki.starkstrom.lan> In-Reply-To: References: <20061102011805.88918.qmail@web60523.mail.yahoo.com> <20061102024053.0fc68d78@loki.starkstrom.lan> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_U9iLIMCTWQuof.WUIIp7fBW; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: "illoai@gmail.com" , Evans Durandisse 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 04:18:20 -0000 --Sig_U9iLIMCTWQuof.WUIIp7fBW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:43:49 -0600 "illoai@gmail.com" wrote: > On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: >=20 > > > 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). >=20 > > You need to install a window manager. >=20 > twm(1) idn't good enough for you? >=20 > evilwm > blackbox > e16 (or whatever they have changed the name too this week) > aewm >=20 > are all fairly degenerate wastes of memory. >=20 > But it will not do much good unless you > have also bothered to install browsers and such. I overlooked the 'four squared boxes' part. Apart from that, he obviously isn't pleased with the installed one. So, he should install something else. Which one is up to him, I won't recommend. --=20 | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. | --Sig_U9iLIMCTWQuof.WUIIp7fBW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFSXGEH31s/bvKrSQRAmYIAJ4ua6hyc4hWcRDH0+jWFP0OF7/PzgCaAg93 dMTD9zh5mOtrwpq129Q0jRM= =srGG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_U9iLIMCTWQuof.WUIIp7fBW--