From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 10:41:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B3837B404 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 907DE901A00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:41:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:41:38 -0400 From: mpd To: Mark Hepp Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I add blackbox? Message-ID: <20020421134138.A66599@rochester.rr.com> References: <005001c1e95a$74eef3b0$6504a8c0@ATHENA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <005001c1e95a$74eef3b0$6504a8c0@ATHENA>; from tarokun@earthlink.net on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:32:05AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please don't send HTML to the list. On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:32:05AM -0700, Mark Hepp wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Downloaded blackbox 0-62-1 tar and would like to run it instead of > Gnome. > > Yes, I've been a bad boy and haven't had time to peruse 100's of pages > of info on how to do this. But you need to do some reading. The FAQ and Handbook are required. > > Got a functioning system, want to keep Gnome for later or another > user. > > I need simple who, what when , where and how exact instructions. > > Please help - I am at 10+ hrs on this and am about to give up and > revert to M$ Are you attempting to do this by hand, or via the ports system? What errors are you getting? The only thing I can really tell you from what you've said is to follow the instructions with blackbox, and then have X start blackbox instead of gnome-session (or whatever.) This only takes a few minutes to do, but we need more information for your specific problem. > Thanks, > > Mark mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "THESE BLANKETS OPEN UP NEW WORLDS OF POSSIBILITY. SUCH A DECISION CANNOT BE MADE LIGHTLY. THE OCEAN HELPS ME TO THINK." - Pokey the Penguin from "BLANKETS FOR SALE" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message