Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:51:10 -0800 From: Don Wilde <don@partsnow.com> To: Brian <brian@imi-bottling.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New User of FreeBSD Message-ID: <34D204FE.3A328D19@partsnow.com> References: <001001bd2cda$80973dd0$01010101@brian>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Brian wrote:
>
> I just purchased and installed FreeBSD and Xfree86 from the Walnut Creek
> 2.2.5 FreeBSD CD-ROM. I only have a few questions that I'm sure will seem
> completely easy to those who have had this awhile...
>
> 1) How does one go about changing the amount of colors available on screen
> (I'm using a Stealth 24 VLB card with 1 meg, capable of 800x600 in 16-bit)
> and have the S3 server installed... Mosaic runs just fine in 256 color or
> whatever it's running. :)
>
read 'man X'... in a nutshell, you can configure it from the command
line at startup or put the line in your /etc/XF86Config file in the
Display section.
> 2) Looking at the Walnut Creek catalog, I see FreeBSD with a good looking
> bitmap, with color dock icons down below, etc... How do I add bitmaps as
> "wallpaper" like you do on Micro$oft products?
>
"xsetroot -bitmap filename", but try this if you want to blow your M$
friends away: "attraction -root &". WHile you're at it, start a few
more: 'attraction &', 'hopalong &', 'qix &'. This will give you an idea
of what real multitasking can do for you! In X, programs can write to
the 'root window', which is the equivalent of the background in m$. When
you want to change to another, just kill the process ('ps -ax' to see
the process ID, then 'kill -HUP xxx') and start another. Attraction is
just one of the xscreensaver programs. It defaults to a window of its
own unless you specify the -root option.
> 3) What version of Netscape currently runs with FreeBSD? Is the Netscape
> Communicator 4.x for Linux 2.x?
>
There is a FreeBSD native version of 4.04 in the unix/unsupported
section of Netscape's site. I'm sure now that source is becoming
available, it will work even better once we get our hands on it. :)))
>
> Thanks in advance for any help. So far this looks to be a great O/S...
>
It is. Just learn to read man pages (RTFM, if you've heard the phrase!)
:)
Have fun!
--
oooOOO O O O o * * * * * *
o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_
V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ]
/oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?34D204FE.3A328D19>