Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:42:11 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@gmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: $DISPLAY not set Message-ID: <44lhmrw418.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <547CBDEF.70002@gmail.com> (Paul Cartwright's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:13:51 -0500") References: <547CB283.1030405@gmail.com> <44wq6bkyag.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <547CBDEF.70002@gmail.com>
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Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright@gmail.com> writes: > On 12/01/2014 01:41 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >>> > am I missing something? >> Well, you're missing the FreeBSD documentation, which is a lot better >> than a random Google result. >> >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html > right, I should have followed that first.. >> >> Or you might want to try PCBSD (www.pcbsd.org) which will require a lot >> less understanding of what is going on (at the cost, as usual, of giving >> you a lot less choice, at least initially). > no,no, I've used UNIX in the past, but it has been linux for the last 10 > years.. just a little rusty.. starting an X server (in all of the massive variety of way you can do that) is pretty much *exactly* the same on Linux as on FreeBSD. >> The "exec startkde" is supposed to go in your .xinitrc file, in which >> case you would start X with the "startx" command. > right, I understand the .xinitrc, but I wanted it to work first.. You don't understand the .xinitrc, then. It isn't going to start an X server for you -- it's supposed to be run *under* the X server.
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