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From: "Christopher Raven" <gurab@lineone.net>
To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: No X-win
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:39:41 -0000
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>>> You don't say that you're trying to start X.  Are you?  Type in
>>> "startx" and see what happens.

>You probably need my book "The Complete FreeBSD"
>(http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook.htm).  The short answer is:
>you need a window manager.  Install the following packages from CD:
>
>xpm-3.4j.tgz
>xfm-1.3.2.tgz
>fvwm-2.0.46.tgz
>
>Then start fvwm2 when you have X running


Thanks for all your help - you wouldn't get this from MS.

cheers


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