From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 22 4:57:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBCE37B415 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7MBvQh05264; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:57:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200108221134.f7MBYpj20251@svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:57:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Timothy Luoma Subject: RE: Learning XFree86 Cc: FBSD questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Aug-01 Timothy Luoma wrote: > > Well, I ran X -configure last night and then ran the > test configuration file. It seemed to work (meaning > that I had what I guess was a basic X window/screen > with no windows in it.) > XFree86 defaults to the twm window manager. You should be able to get that working. Do you start with xinit or startx? startx normallt starts off X with twm. Look also for a file 'xinitrc', there you can insert another windowmanager if you have it installed. /M > Unfortunately this is my first time dealing with > XFree86, so I have no idea how to use it. > > > Could someone point me to a good XFree86 for FreeBSD > (or generic, if that's all there is or is needed) > site? > > > I generally can muddle my way through if there is > something to read on the matter (except 'man' pages, > which often leave me glazed over, but that's another > story). > > > Thanks for your help. > > TjL > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message