From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 10:55:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE9B37B404 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020421175538.XRRG29761.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:55:38 +0100 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3LHtbV70659; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:55:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3LHtaL17973; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:55:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:55:36 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Mark Hepp Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I add blackbox? Message-ID: <20020421185536.E9124@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <005001c1e95a$74eef3b0$6504a8c0@ATHENA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <005001c1e95a$74eef3b0$6504a8c0@ATHENA>; from tarokun@earthlink.net on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:32:05AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:32:05AM -0700, Mark Hepp wrote: > Hi All, > > Downloaded blackbox 0-62-1 tar and would like to run it instead of Gnome. > Yes, I've been a bad boy and haven't had time to peruse 100's of pages of > info on how to do this. Got a functioning system, want to keep Gnome for > later or another user. I need simple who, what when , where and how > exact instructions. Please help - I am at 10+ hrs on this and am about > to give up and revert to M$ 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