From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 22:52:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA13507 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:52:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA13497 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:52:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08015; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:52:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:52:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Muhammad Harie MUHAMMAD AMIR CHOW cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X windows In-Reply-To: <3498F248.281F@ukc.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Muhammad Harie MUHAMMAD AMIR CHOW wrote: > I'm an avid user of WinTel platform machine and UNIX. I'm considered new > in UNIX administration stuff. > My questio is how do I actually run X-windows, I seemed to be stuck in > CLI mode. I did went through the X thing (whatever). As far as I know, > in Solaris UNIX Operating System, I can run the X-windows by detecting > this command. > /usr/openwin/bin/openwin. > So, how do I do that in FreeBSD UNIX. Now, I now Solaris is another > variant of UNIX. At least, I know the administration in UNIX OS. > Installing NT seems to be so much of problematic. Run `startx'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major