From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 27 05:59:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA08539 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 05:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panam1.panam.edu (panam1.panam.edu [129.113.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA08534 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 05:59:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fabry@panam.edu) Received: from earth ([198.213.49.85]) by panam1.panam.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #24254) with SMTP id <01J13A6IRB588Y74IM@panam1.panam.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:57:00 CDT Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:58:06 -0500 From: "Alain G. Fabry" Subject: Re: X windows startup To: dmb Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <018501bdd1ba$55e2efa0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Priority: 3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been told to change .xsession or .xinitrc to change the default window manager. Probably an easy question, but where are these files located? Even when I do a find it does not find any of these files. BTW, fvwm95 is in /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm95. Thanks, Alain -----Original Message----- From: dmb To: Alain G. Fabry Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 6:50 PM Subject: Re: X windows startup >The bin for fvwm95 is prolly in /usr/local/bin/. Try adding this to >.xinitrc >/usr/local/bin/fvwm95 or whatever the name of the bin is. > > >On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > >> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE and starting at the console with xdm. >> >> 1. >> Whenever I log into the machine, it uses the default windows manager twm. I would like to change this to the fvwm95. Which file initiates the window manager to load, or where do I have to change the default window manager to load. >> >> 2. >> Also, I'm running out of diskspace on / but have plenty left on /usr, /var. Can I have a link from / to /usr or /var so that it will not prompt me saying I have lack of disk space when I'm creating a custom kernel. >> >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >> /dev/wd0s1a 31775 31438 -2205 108% / >> /dev/wd0s1f 1835191 493305 1195071 29% /usr >> /dev/wd0s1e 29727 1122 26227 4% /var >> procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alain >> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message