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Subject: Re: Howdy!
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Hey Phil,

my name's Phil too.   Any idea how to set up KDE as the default
windowmanager when you type in "startx" ?

When I put it in my "xinit.rc" home file, I get a "$Display not configured"
message... any ideas?

Cheers

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Webb" <philwebb@piperain.com>
To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 8:36 PM
Subject: Howdy!


> Just poppin' in to say hi, so "HI"!
>
> There, I'm done with it!  :)
>
> I have been piddling with FreeBSD since 4.0 but now am getting "serious"
>
> with it.  I work for a large office supply chain selling computers etc.
> and
> occaisonally folks come in with *nix questions so I suppose I should
> have a
> reasonable grasp of it eh?
>
> I am pretty familiar with Windows (even got XP to dual boot with FreeBSD
>
> 4.4 on this machine) and run FreeBSD on 2 machines at home.  That way if
> I
> screw one up, I have something to compare to!
>
> At any rate, I am now starting to actually get around fairly well and am
>
> even getting dangerous.  To Wit: re-compiled the kernel and got my
> onboard
> sound working (Oh happy day!) and walked around with a swolen head for a
>
> couple of days.
>
> I have Greg Lehey's "Complete FreeBSD 3rd edition" and have Annelise
> Andersons book on order (waiting impatiently I might add!:) ).  Nothing
> beats the printed word for untangling messes.
>
> Now my goals are to get the CD drives to play music CD's as well as burn
>
> (on the burner of course), get SAMBA working so The Wife can print
> across
> our little network and get my own dadgum printer working.  Unfortunately
> my
> HP 932c, while a great little printer doesn't support Postscript.  :(
>
> As I saw in another thread, *nix does require one to pay attention to
> details, so thats good exercise too!  To that end I suppose I'd better
> learn to type well.  At the moment the backspace key seems to be my best
>
> friend in KDE. Once I start with vi I'm really gonna be in trouble!  :)
>
> Anyway, just a word of encouragement to the frustrated and thanks to
> those
> who help.
>
> Have Fun!
>
> phil
>
>
>
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