Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:59:12 GMT From: tlegvold@c2i.net (Thor Legvold) To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X11 setup on fresh 3.2 install Message-ID: <199909141549.RAA10926@falk.c2i.net>
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Just got my 3.2 Walnut Creek CDROM, installed it and everything looks good. I may have made a blunder as I chose several window managers under install hoping I could try several out, switch between them until I decide which one I would like to use regularly. Unfortunately I'm X11 illiterate and have no idea where to start getting things set up. The install went fine, I can do "startx" and get the WM started, but _which_ WM starts I have no controll over :-( As far as I can tell it's the last one installed by the installer, so I suspect a symlink somewhere. I've used /stand/sysinstall several times to try to remove/add the different WM's, and it seems as though most of the docs and binaries do indeed get installed, although starting them is a problem. I helped a friend install Redhat 6.0 recently, and I noticed he got xdm with a "chooser" installed automagically, and can choose which desktop environment/WM he would like to run at login time. Very nice. Is this trivial under FreeBSD? Or should I install one WM at a time, try it out for a while, then uninstall and try a new one? Hope this is enough info to get help for. I'm unix-literate but not X11 (I used NextStep for several years). Regards, Thor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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