Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:13:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: "Douglas L. Setzer, II" <dsetzer@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win95 X-Window Type Thing-a-MaJig Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980702110937.12882E-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <359B11C2.4EAC90BC@bigfoot.com>
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> Can someone tell me exactly what is startX and what a X-Windows SERVER > is?? Xwindows is a program that starts up a graphical interface on your computer (as you note). startx is one way of starting your X server - the other is xdm. > I know that X-Windows is a GUI that allows you to run applications by > using happy icons and what not. So, what is all of this other stuff? What "other stuff?" > Also, the Redhat 5.1 version of Linux came with a X-Windows thing that > was pretty nice.. does anyone know which it is, and if so, can I run it > on fBSD? Many X distributions are from XFree86 (as I believe the default one from Red Hat is). There are commercial examples - Xig is one. XFree86 is also available for FreeBSD so these will be the same. > And lastly, I'm a win95 person at heart, or well, that is what I've > used for a REALLY long time... is there a X-Windows program that looks > like win95, ie.. start menu, shortcuts, etc..? There are a number of window managers that will do this - fvwm95 comes to mind. There is also KDE, a complete desktop manager that in my opinion looks like Windows - but then I don't use Windows ever so ... :-) All of the window managers and KDE and many of the associated KDE apps are available in the ports tree. Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a light bulb? Zero. They declared Darkness[tm] the standard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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