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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net>
To:        DrAcO <XDrAcOX@mci2000.COM>
Cc:        newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing X-Windows
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980612215434.3109B-100000@mustang>
In-Reply-To: <3581B36E.C76B5891@mci2000.COM>

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Dood, what you need is a different window manager....it's what makes
everything look pretty.  Redhat uses fvwm95 I believe, and if you want you
can use that too...or you can use KDE which is really neat but takes a bit
of work to install, or you can use WindowMaker which I'm trying to install
myself at this moment.  Can't seem to get the icons working though.
*shrug*  

Anyways...take a look at:

www.kde.org
www.windowmaker.org
www.afterstep.org
www.enlightenment.org

And choose whatever one looks coolest to you...although right now I'm
preferring KDE...but that might change if I get WindowMaker's icons to
work right.

Peace,

Joey


===================================================
Joseph Garcia
Downey, CA
bear@pacificnet.net
"Dont drink and drive, you might spill the beer."
===================================================

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, DrAcO wrote:

> I am new to the FreeBSD "enviroment", and am only 15 at the time so
> forgive me if I sound kind of  "out of it" right now.  I recently
> installed FreeBSD 2.2.6 on my laptop (Toshiba 430CDS) and am having
> trouble running X-Windows.  When X-Windows comes up, it seems like an
> older version.  When I ran RedHat Linux 4.2, my X-Windows background was
> green and it had a start menu, etc., etc.  However, my FreeBSD X-Windows
> is grey, has no start menu, and the colors are different.  The X-Term
> windows is actually white!  In X-Windows configuration, I have selected
> the right graphics card, screen resolution, and everything is correct,
> but when I startx it looks the same.  I installed FreeBSD from a
> CD-ROM.  I was wondering if someone could help me figure out what the
> problem is?
>             Thanks,
>                 John.
> 
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