From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 9 19:30:08 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95DF16A418 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:30:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::5e5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911A513C480 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:30:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (cpe-68-175-8-11.hvc.res.rr.com [68.175.8.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l79JU7Xc074165; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:30:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l79JU29R064513; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:30:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id l79JU2bG064512; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:30:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-Id: <200708091930.l79JU2bG064512@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: glassdude45@yahoo.com (Frank Griffith) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:30:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <771432.76292.qm@web51310.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading X Issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:30:09 -0000 Hi, Do you have an ".xinitrc" file in the home directory of the person invoking X? Whats in that file? What does "ls -ld /var/db/pkg/xterm*" show? Tuc > > Thank you again for your reply. But may I ask how I can get the default window manager back. I think it's called xterm or xdm, I'm not sure. > > The link you referenced is for loading Gnome or KDE. The last time I followed the instructions for loading KDE like this it ran for almost 72 hours. And that was on a P4 1.9 Ghz with a blazing fast high speed connection I was using in NYC. It would download 640 MB in only 3 minutes, but the KDE pkg_add was still running after 2 days of non-stop compiling and I eventually had to give it up. > > I just want to get my little xterm windows back like I had before the Xorg upgrade. Again, thanks for your replies. > > > Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2007 07:01 am, Frank Griffith wrote: > > So can you please help me with what I need to do to assign a > > window manager to run when startx is run? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html > > Jung-uk Kim > > > > --------------------------------- > Luggage? GPS? Comic books? > Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >