From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 25 8:13:56 2002 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 92F5837B400 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep9.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D58143E42 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dlavigne6@cogeco.ca) Received: from d226-39-211.home.cgocable.net (d226-39-211.home.cgocable.net [24.226.39.211]) by fep9.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180E0569D; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 11:13:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 11:20:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: dlavigne6@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do i change my windows manager? In-Reply-To: <20020825145451.17857.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020825111745.M162-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > i've installed hackedbox through the ports... but i'm having problems > trying to get it to load instead of twm(?). > > i've tried reading the handbook, but that didn't help me understand what > to do with the .xinit file... and the xfree86 site was of even less help > with it's documentation that's not expecially good for a newbie. Create a file in your home directory called .xinitrc and put this one line in it: exec hackedbox That should work. Haven't used hackedbox before so I'm hoping that's the name of its executable :) Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message