From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 12:36:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1A037B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.acsu.buffalo.edu (smtp3.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D18AF43E7B for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cd9@buffalo.edu) Received: (qmail 15258 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2002 19:36:50 -0000 Received: from ubppp234-171.dialin.buffalo.edu (HELO selvirjin.buffalo.edu) (128.205.234.171) by smtp3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 1 Sep 2002 19:36:50 -0000 Received: from dragon by selvirjin.buffalo.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17laW5-0008rF-00; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 15:36:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:36:13 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: startx and windows managers Message-ID: <20020901153613.A287@selvirjin.buffalo.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD LIST References: <20020901025458.663844ba.auge@seth.augenstein.net> <20020901151608.V37627-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020901151608.V37627-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>; from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com on Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 03:18:28PM -0400 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 At approximately Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 03:18:28PM -0400, Peter Leftwich scribbled: > On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Norbert Augenstein wrote: > > Peter Leftwich wrote: > > > What is the difference between Gnome (and its default wm called > > > MetaCity) and the windows manager itself? > > all your answers you may find here: http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ > > Before I posted I had already read the introduction link/page. Between > that and the next step the site becomes too technical! I was reading > http://www.plig.org/xwinman/basics.html and it mentions that I should have > a file called /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but I don't even have the xinit > directory! > Linux /etc/X11/* ==> FreeBSD /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* -- ..: Chad Daelhousen == cd9@buffalo.edu :.........: sig v3.1 :... : Programming for 10 +/- 2 years (50 +/- 10% of a lifetime) : :.............Perl will be the first to implement mind reading.: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message