From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 25 02:51:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 F072B16A403 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:51:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8307F43D49 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:51:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3P2pdNX045477; Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:51:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <444D8EB5.2060404@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:51:33 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Enigma References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up Fluxbox (May apply to other GUI's) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:51:42 -0000 Enigma wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 6, and are new to *nix in itself. > I have used the 'pkg_add -r fluxbox' command to > get the fluxbox packages. Although after all my searching on > different sites and asking someone I still cannot find > where these packages would have been installed to, > from using that command. The official fluxbox site > doesn't offer any insight into this either, as I suspect > it may be general knowledge to unix users? Any help > in tracking these down would be greatly appreciated, > as would any help in configuring for base things such > as the konsole. > > Cheers, > Warwick. You can read a lot by trying some of these commands: $ man ports $ man pkg_which $ man pkg_info and then using "pkg_which" or "pkg_info" to find out answers to questions like these. As a shortcut: If fluxbox is indeed installed on your system, and your $PATH environment variable is set in a more or less standard fashion, then the following should help you, at least a little bit. 1. Edit a file in your $HOME directory entitled ".xinitrc". (Yes the dot is there and important). If it is not already extant, try this: $ echo "exec fluxbox" > ~/.xinitrc If you have the file already, you can edit it with your $EDITOR, or you can add the line to the end of the file by doubling the "redirector" above: >> 2. Assuming you've correctly configured your X server, (which is a whole other chapter in and of itself), you should now be able to type "startx" and the console's shell prompt, and have the X server bring fluxbox into action when the GUI starts. As for the location of "fluxbox", it's probably under /usr/X11R6/bin/, but I can't say for sure. If you log out and back in, does "whereis fluxbox" work? The C shell (and TCSH) need to rebuild your $PATH data after installing new programs. You can issue "rehash" after installation, or logout/in as I mentioned. HTH, Kevin Kinsey