From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 22 09:13:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09484 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:13:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nmail.devrycols.edu (nmail.devrycols.edu [199.218.238.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA09479 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:13:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jm7996@devrycols.edu) Received: from cis070 [131.187.253.210] by nmail.devrycols.edu (SMTPD32-4.07) id A1D72C2011E; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:13:59 EST Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990122121500.007bf100@devrycols.edu> X-Sender: jm7996@devrycols.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:15:00 -0500 To: cjclark@home.com, jmal25@hotmail.com (Jason Malone) From: "James A. Mutter" Subject: Re: Starting the GUI in FreeBSD 2.2.6 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <199901220153.UAA13200@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <19990121222925.23635.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:53 PM 1/21/99 -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote: >Jason Malone wrote, > >BTW, X is not really a 'GUI.' It's called the 'X Window System.' If you >are expecting a 'Start' button, there isn't one. The default 'startx' >will give you the 'twm' window manager (X itself does not put the >title bars, menus, etc. on windows, a manager program does), and an >xterm (which will be just like your console). There are other window >managers more like Winbloze if that's what you want (e.g. fvwm95). > What are you talking about? X in combination with _any_ window manager is most certainly a GUI. The term GUI or Graphical User Interface is hardly Windows specific. You've got 2 choices, a CLI or Command Line Interface or a GUI - Graphical User Interface. >See, > >man X >man startx >man twm >man fvwm95 (This only will work if you install it. It's in the ports.) > >Also, you should get used to not using root for your usual login >account. If you could be more detailed about the setup, we might be >able to help more. >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message