From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 8 6:19:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7857F37BB3C for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 06:19:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 209-122-224-226.s480.tnt3.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.224.226] helo=beefstew) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 1302D9-0003Fy-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:19:04 -0400 Message-ID: <001301bfd14c$3d96b5b0$e2e07ad1@beefstew> From: "leegold" To: Subject: Re: window Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:19:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i am loath to spend any more time w/x-windows. i have spent more time trying get it going than i have w/learning unix - which is the point of all this for me. i need the simplest x-windows setup i can get. problem is i can't find a STEP BY STEP explaination on how to configure it - do i ahve to read another orielly book to get anything going?. it seems like i am just continually scoping books, searching Linux sites/howtos, groping for questions on the web, and i'm not getting anywhere. all my windowsmaker questions where deflected at their mail list - saying they were all xfree86 issues not windowmaker questions. 1st thing is i can not adjust my monitor anymore w/the hardware adjustments on the front panel of the monitor - i get an err mess saying i can not adjust the timing. this never happened w/nt. why would i be locked out from my own monitors adjustments? xvidtune is not doing squat to help me configure the dimentions - there is a problem w/my desktop scrolling off the screen completely when i drag windows to the screen edge. xvidtune has no effect on this. w/windowsmaker there is a strange opague border around the steelblue WM desktop. what the heck is it? it's only visible when using WM - but they say it's an x86 issue. so i think i'm going to uninstall the whole bag and rethink this - i have a powerful OS in my box and i'm am getting sidetracked w/less important stuff. i wouldn't mind a stable console window,,,, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message