From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 27 01:18:07 2004 Return-Path: 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 81BFA16A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:18:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324DB43D2F for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:18:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20041227011805i92002b2f6e>; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:18:06 +0000 Message-ID: <41CF62CB.6060900@nbritton.org> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:18:03 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041219) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andrei References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: a quick question ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 01:18:07 -0000 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