Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:55:36 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Mark Hepp <tarokun@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I add blackbox? Message-ID: <20020421185536.E9124@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <005001c1e95a$74eef3b0$6504a8c0@ATHENA>; from tarokun@earthlink.net on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:32:05AM -0700 References: <005001c1e95a$74eef3b0$6504a8c0@ATHENA>
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:32:05AM -0700, Mark Hepp wrote: > Hi All, > > Downloaded blackbox 0-62-1 tar and would like to run it instead of Gnome. > Yes, I've been a bad boy and haven't had time to peruse 100's of pages of > info on how to do this. Got a functioning system, want to keep Gnome for > later or another user. I need simple who, what when , where and how > exact instructions. Please help - I am at 10+ hrs on this and am about > to give up and revert to M$ Thanks, > Mark To install blackbox, you could either: cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/blackbox make install or for the impatient: pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All/blackbox-0.62.1.tgz All covered in Chapter 4 of the Handbook. To actually use it, you probably just need to change the line in your ~/.xsession file that starts 'gnome-session' to start 'blackbox' instead. I don't use Gnome, so that may not be exactly right. Chapter 5 of the Handbook seems to go into this in a bit more details. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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