From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 18 06:14:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA20861 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 06:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA20852 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 06:14:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig@tuna.progroup.com) Received: from ProGroup.COM (tuna.progroup.com [206.24.122.5]) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA05894; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 06:11:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by ProGroup.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id GAA00796; Thu, 18 Dec 1997 06:13:38 -0800 From: craig@tuna.progroup.com (Craig W. Shaver) Message-Id: <199712181413.GAA00796@ProGroup.COM> Subject: Re: X windows - startx To: mhm1@ukc.ac.uk (Muhammad Harie MUHAMMAD AMIR CHOW) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 06:13:38 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3498F248.281F@ukc.ac.uk> from "Muhammad Harie MUHAMMAD AMIR CHOW" at Dec 18, 97 09:52:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm an avid user of WinTel platform machine and UNIX. I'm considered new > in UNIX administration stuff. > My questio is how do I actually run X-windows, I seemed to be stuck in > CLI mode. I did went through the X thing (whatever). As far as I know, > in Solaris UNIX Operating System, I can run the X-windows by detecting > this command. > /usr/openwin/bin/openwin. > So, how do I do that in FreeBSD UNIX. Now, I now Solaris is another > variant of UNIX. At least, I know the administration in UNIX OS. > Installing NT seems to be so much of problematic. > look for startx, do a man on xinit and startx ... look down in the /usr/X11R6 directories .... -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088