From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 25 16: 1:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4886C37BE58 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 16:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA2E59; Thu, 25 May 2000 16:02:49 -0700 Message-ID: <392DB04D.7E2351A2@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 15:59:25 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herbert Nkhoma Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting X Windows References: <002501bfc61e$f5c4b0d0$02a994d0@malawi.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Herbert Nkhoma wrote: > I want to know this. How can I start x windows from another terminal. > Starting it fro the console works fine. What other terminal? You mean another console? Or from a remote terminal? I haven't used remote terminals all that often, and when I do, I usually don't use X. I do know that you need to set up the DISPLAY variable correctly. It's quite pointless to telnet into a remote machine only to have your application appear on that remote machine. To get to another console, type ALT+CTRL+F2 (or F3, etc.). Then type startx. One weird thing you can do (it's weird if you've never done it) is to start a second X session. Start an normal X session, then switch to another console. "Type startx -- :1", and boom, you have two X sessions. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message