Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:18:03 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: andrei <admin@zeyas.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a quick question ... Message-ID: <41CF62CB.6060900@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <WorldClient-F200412261943.AA43290000@zeyas.com> References: <WorldClient-F200412261943.AA43290000@zeyas.com>
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andrei wrote: >Hi, my name is Andrei and I have recently purchased FreeBSD from BSDMall and >I ran into few problems. I am a windows user but i have some experince in >Linux BUT, I got rid of my windows machine and installed FreeBDS. After the >install for some reason i log into root and i use the startx command since i >get no GUI interface and i get 3 pannels (light green bar and white >background and a clock at the top (it looks like a 16 bit OS or something). >Can you tell me what could be wrong ... any help will be apreciated. (i am >gladly getting rid of windows and i am probably not give up easily that is >why i would like some help) ... Thank you for the time taken to read my >email and helping me. My system is 3.06Ghz intel, all in wonder ati 9700 >pro, 200Gb WD, 1Gb ram, cd-rw 52x24x52, dvd-rw 4x2x32, sound blaster audigy >2. > > Yea you need to install a desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc) and then setup X, It looks like you already have X setup as you can get to the default twm window manager. What you need to do now install a desktop Environment and then tell X to use it instead of twm. Everything you need to know is documented in chapter 5 subsection 7 of the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
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