From owner-freebsd-qa Wed May 8 12:29:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from labyrinth.cs.rogers.wave.ca (labyrinth.cs.rogers.wave.ca [24.112.32.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7529937B403 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 12:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 20272 invoked by uid 1000); 8 May 2002 19:27:27 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:27:27 -0400 From: Ashley Penney To: qa@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with X in 4.6 snapshots (Pr: 37863) Message-ID: <20020508192727.GA20254@labyrinth.cs.rogers.wave.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I wanted to draw attention to what I consider a fairly big problem with the installation of X from the 4.6 snapshots. This has the potential to confuse a lot of people. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37863 shows two seperate problems, but the more important one is that 'wrapper' is not installed during the installation of X. If you don't use xdm (or something similar), X won't start up from the console, which I consider to be a fairly large flaw. -- "I tried that nethack game and it fucking sucked" -- The state of the UNIX desktop, according to my girlfriend, Stacey Neilson (meow@violate.me.uk) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message