From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 23:16:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E816314D16 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:16:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06885; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:15:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA28039; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:15:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.2/8.9.1) id JAA37254; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:15:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990330091550.A37176@sr.se> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:15:50 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: "N. Wolfe" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: xwindows not starting Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: <4.1.19990329210216.00967a80@smtp.net-link.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990329210216.00967a80@smtp.net-link.net>; from N. Wolfe on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:03:01PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:03:01PM -0500, N. Wolfe wrote: > i have installed FreeBSD many times now and have noticed that about half of > the time after the xwindows setup you can type 'startx' and xwindows will > start up fine and the other half i get a message regarding the absence of a > file called xinit or something similar. Anyone know why that is and how I > might be able to fix the problem in my current installation? You have a sample xinitrc in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/ called xinitrc. Copy this file with the name .xinitrc to your $HOME/. and edit the file to start the windowmanager of your choice. -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message