From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 15: 6:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DD937B40B for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:06:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0352E43FC1 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:06:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parv_fm@mailsent.net) Received: from sdn-ap-005dcwashp0023.dialsprint.net ([63.188.40.23] helo=moo.holy.cow) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18gC8w-0000ow-00; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 15:06:20 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D4FF5ADF8; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:09:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:09:14 -0500 From: parv To: David Larkin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: specifying the X window manager Message-ID: <20030204230914.GA517@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: David Larkin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3E3E54C0.3E897025@djl.co.uk> <3E3FC8E2.DFB5134B@djl.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E3FC8E2.DFB5134B@djl.co.uk> 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 in message <3E3FC8E2.DFB5134B@djl.co.uk>, wrote David Larkin thusly... > > I have installed my favourite X window manager. > > Can someone remind me how to configure startx to use it create $HOME/.xinitrc which will launch the clients you want. then use just type "startx" on the console. and voila! (voila iff nothing else is not wrong). to toot my own horn, below is the shell script that i use to start xinit(1) directly w/o startx(1)... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/xf ...my ~/.xinitrc... http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/unix/cf/x/xinitrc - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message