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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

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