Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:45:55 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jason@washington.edu> To: Brian <brian@imi-bottling.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New User of FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129112512.642B-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <001001bd2cda$80973dd0$01010101@brian>
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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Brian wrote: > I just purchased and installed FreeBSD and Xfree86 from the Walnut Creek > 2.2.5 FreeBSD CD-ROM. I only have a few questions that I'm sure will seem > completely easy to those who have had this awhile... > > 1) How does one go about changing the amount of colors available on screen > (I'm using a Stealth 24 VLB card with 1 meg, capable of 800x600 in 16-bit) > and have the S3 server installed... Mosaic runs just fine in 256 color or > whatever it's running. :) Take a look at '/etc/XF86Config'. The settings are in there. Also see 'man xf86config'. Be very careful about messing with monitor settings. You can damage your monitor. > 2) Looking at the Walnut Creek catalog, I see FreeBSD with a good looking > bitmap, with color dock icons down below, etc... How do I add bitmaps as > "wallpaper" like you do on Micro$oft products? This is a much larger question than you might think at first. In FreeBSD the user interface is distinct from the operating system. This mean that you may choose any one of 50 or so available "interfaces". How you change the bitmaps and background depends entirely on the interface you choose. The interface is called a window manager. I used to use a window manager named 'fvwm'. I now use the interface 'kwm' as part of the 'kde' desktop environment. This anser probably raises more questions than it answers. :) About the bitmap. You need the xpm library on your machine. In xpm there is a program called 'sxpm' for viewing color pixmaps. I forget the name of the program that set the root window using color pixmaps. About setting the background color. See 'man xsetroot'. 'xsetroot' can also tile some pretty ordinary looking bitmaps in your background. In X parlance the background may also be referred to as the root window. Though technically the background is only _part_ of the root window. > 3) What version of Netscape currently runs with FreeBSD? Is the Netscape > Communicator 4.x for Linux 2.x? There is a Communicator 4.x for FreeBSD in the ports collection. If you have the ports collection on your machine do the following. $ cd /usr/ports/www/netscape4-yourchoice $ make $ make install > Thanks in advance for any help. So far this looks to be a great O/S... > > - Brian No problem. Hope this helps, Jason Wells
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