From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 22 18:47:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA12574 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 18:47:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA12566 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 18:47:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@bsampley.vip.best.com) Received: from bsampley (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.7/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id SAA09098; Sat, 22 Nov 1997 18:47:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 18:43:19 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley X-Sender: bsampley@bsampley To: Michael Porter cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions with X In-Reply-To: <347756CD.CEC3575A@wavefront.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Michael Porter wrote: > I have a few questions regarding X windows: > starting startx --32bpp or something, but startx --16bpp neither worked You were *very* close, but not quite close enough. It's actually: startx -- -bpp 16 or startx -- -bpp 32 > > The last time I tried using checkpoint to save the states of the > programs, my system got messed up beyond belief. I don't know if this > was it or not, but I didn't remember doing anything else either. Do I > have any reason to fear saving the states again? ie any tips or DOs or > DO NOT DOs? > I can't find the file like .login for X. In .login, there's a line stty > crt erase ^h, but when xterm starts up, I need to type this by hand. > What's the name of the X initialization file? If I could use > checkpoint, this shouldn't be necessary though, but possibly handy. Can't help you here's > > > How do I use the window managers like fvwm and the others? It defaults Depends. If you're going to use XDM, then you need to create an executable file call .xsession in your $HOME directory. If you're starting X with startx then you'll need to create a file call .xinitrc, also in your $HOME directory. These files should contain the name of the windowmanager you would like to use and any applications you would like to start immediately when X starts. Be careful on the order of the applications. The last entry in either file is called the controlling process. When that application exits, then your X window session will also end. Here's a copy of my .xinitrc: /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm & /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep This starts X with 1 xterm window open. > > Hmmm.... that should be it. If I can get 16 bit and try out other > managers, I'll be one happer FreeBSDer. : ) > > Thanks a lot! > Michael Porter > ocean@wavefront.com > port0095@tc.umn.edu > > An excelent book that really helped me learn about X is X User Tools (ISBN# 1-56592-019-8). Hope this helps. - - burton - - --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNHeYVXt2O8KJtMdBAQF60AP/Qas9Yn4IW50lwIMI0zK6IjRQgi5BHft/ ifqurf8OTcg8AT2H9WdVS9vRmen7dCwa2R54qkQVthHZBZqbKRKMquj9zPHuOXly AkMstRy9ua5HlRd6RCvsRHUnTtTg6F5AXm9LabtqcLXOYzcT6QTj+qlRt1QTpnxU kpxLbyQTg48= =QaSE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----