From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 20:17:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E56601065674 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:17:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellers@njit.edu) Received: from mail-gw6.njit.edu (mail-gw6.njit.edu [128.235.251.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90CC78FC0C for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:17:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.maestro (dhcp114-27.njit.edu [128.235.114.27]) by mail-gw6.njit.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7CKHGBu008470; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:17:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C6456CD.50501@njit.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:17:17 -0400 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100726 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fred Boatwright References: <4C641B08.E424A1A0@blakemfg.com> <4C64362A.3000202@njit.edu> <4C644E17.C9CFAAC9@blakemfg.com> In-Reply-To: <4C644E17.C9CFAAC9@blakemfg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 question 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, 12 Aug 2010 20:17:34 -0000 Fred, From man startx(1): SEE ALSO xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5) Try: # whereis X If X is installed, it should return: # X: /usr/local/bin/X pkg_which if X is installed should return: # pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X xorg-server-1.7.5,1 If it doesn't, then the full X server isn't installed: Try: # whereis xorg xorg: /usr/ports/x11/xorg If xorg isn't installed, cd to: /usr/ports/x11/xorg and make config-recursive (If you add any options, run make config-recursive a second time after the shell prompt returns) and then make install clean HTH Tim Kellers On 08/12/10 15:40, Fred Boatwright wrote: > Hi Oliver and Tim, > > I installed xinit but startx still doesn't exist. whereis returns > nothing and man startx returns nothing. > > Fred > > Tim Kellers wrote: > >> /usr/ports/x11/xinit >> >> On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): >> >> beta# whereis startx >> >> startx: /usr/local/bin/startx /usr/local/man/man1/startx.1.gz >> >> beta# pkg_which /usr/local/bin/startx >> >> xinit-1.2.0 >> >> beta# whereis xinit >> >> xinit: /usr/local/bin/xinit /usr/local/man/man1/xinit.1.gz >> /usr/ports/x11/xinit >> >> I' m not certain about the p5/Perl TK questions, but in the file: >> /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-Tk/pkg-descr >> there is this description: >> >> This a re-port of a perl interface to Tk8.4 (John Ousterhout's production >> release). >> >> Perl API is essentially the same as Tk800.025 but has not >> been verified as compliant. >> >> It also includes all the C code parts of Tix8.1.4 from SourceForge. >> The perl code corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully implemented. >> >> This version (Tk804.025) is only likely to work with perl5.8+. >> >> Tim Kellers >> >> On 08/12/10 12:02, Fred Boatwright wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports under >>> X11 >>> but I don't want to install all of them to find it. >>> >>> Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Fred >>>