Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:43:21 PST From: "Jason Malone" <jmal25@hotmail.com> To: jm7996@devrycols.edu, cjclark@home.com, jmal25@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting the GUI in FreeBSD 2.2.6 Message-ID: <19990122204322.12143.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi, Thanks for the info concerning x-windows.I am now well on the way to configuring fvwm95(or maybe something similar). Regards, Jason Malone. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:15:00 -0500 To: cjclark@home.com,jmal25@hotmail.com (Jason Malone) From: "James A. Mutter" <jm7996@devrycols.edu> Subject: Re: Starting the GUI in FreeBSD 2.2.6 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) 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 > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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