From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 09:43:42 2003 Return-Path: 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 7E30137B401 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BB8943F3F for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:43:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blueeskimo@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 12413 invoked by uid 65534); 14 Apr 2003 16:43:37 -0000 Received: from i216-58-29-174.gta.igs.net (EHLO [216.58.29.174]) (216.58.29.174) by mail.gmx.net (mp009-rz3) with SMTP; 14 Apr 2003 18:43:37 +0200 From: Adam To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030414035505.34585.qmail@web15212.mail.bjs.yahoo.com> References: <20030414035505.34585.qmail@web15212.mail.bjs.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1050338615.94705.18.camel@jake> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 14 Apr 2003 12:43:35 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: about window mamager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:43:42 -0000 On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 23:55, FLYING LI wrote: > I installed KDE,window maker ,fvwm and afterstep when > I install the system .and I set KDE as default window > manager.Now i can enter KDE normally.but when i exit > KDE and try to run wmaker,fvwm & afterstep,there is > only an error "can not open display"" ".I think that > the window manager have not been configured rightly. > but i can not confirm the path of config file and do > not know how to config them.would you please to help > me? > thank you! How are you trying to start wmaker, fvvm, & afterstep? It sounds to me like you're just running the window manager executable, but there's not X session running. Try using 'startx' instead .. You'll need to make an .xinitrc file to tell it what window manager to load, but that's trivial .. man startx -- Adam