From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 7 19:33:44 2005 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 36F1716A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:33:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD3343D3F for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:33:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j27JXfK11726; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:33:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200503071933.j27JXfK11726@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: khbizniz@yahoo.com (Katsuki Hirata) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:33:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20050307151456.16876.qmail@web53510.mail.yahoo.com> from "Katsuki Hirata" at Mar 07, 2005 07:14:56 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just installed FreeBSD 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, 07 Mar 2005 19:33:44 -0000 > > Do you know what command I have to type in for either kde or afterstep or > xwwindows to start up? This is what I need to know, after putting my > computer on and starts loading, it asks for username and password and I > type that and hit enter. Then what do I do, how do i load kde or afterstep, > what command do i need to type for that to come up Normally, if you have done an install and configure the usual way, it is put in to the startx script. So, then, once you are logged in you just type 'startx' on the command line and it all pops up just as configured. The startx script is in: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx There is also an xinitrc file you can modify to configure things about the windows that come up automatically when you start it and other things. The systemwide one is at: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc ////jerry > > Jerry McAllister wrote:> > > Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to > > run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, > > and after loginging with both root and/or another > > username, I don't know what to do from there on. How > > do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed to be a > > graphical thing like Windows or Redhat linux? what's > > the command to load the operating system > > Hi, > I rambled on about X and looking at the handbook, etc in another response, > but missed the how to load the OS part. > > You don't. When you have booted the machine, the OS is loaded > and running. When you log in you get a shell which sets on top > of the OS. You might then start up an X window manager such as > Afterstep or KDE which is kind of a shell that manages X for you > and then you can open up windows such as xterms which start new > shells for you and you work in the shells. > > ////jerry > > > > > --------------------------------- > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > --0-1112977150-1110208496=:11518 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > >
Do you know what command I have to type in for either kde or afterstep or xwwindows to start up? This is what I need to know, after putting my computer on and starts loading, it asks for username and password and I type that and hit enter. Then what do I do, how do i load kde or afterstep, what command do i need to type for that to come up

Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: >
>
> Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to
> run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot,
> and after loginging with both root and/or another
> username, I don't know what to do from there on. How
> do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed to be a
> graphical thing like Windows or Redhat linux? what's
> the command to load the operating system

Hi,
I rambled on about X and looking at the handbook, etc in another response,
but missed the how to load the OS part.

You don't. When you have booted the machine, the OS is loaded
and running. When you log in you get a shell which sets on top
of the OS. You might then start up an X window manager such as
Afterstep or KDE which is kind of a shell that manages X for you
and then you can open up windows such as xterms which start newshells for > you and you work in the shells.

////jerry

>

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