Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:25:46 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: tlegvold@c2i.net (Thor Legvold) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 setup on fresh 3.2 install Message-ID: <36645.937326346@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:59:12 GMT." <199909141549.RAA10926@falk.c2i.net>
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:59:12 GMT, Thor Legvold wrote: > 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 :-( Assuming you don't have the money or inclination to get hold of the X User's Guide and/or the X Administrator's Guide, you could look at the following manpage: startx(1) xdm(1) You will also want to look at the gunk in: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm > 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? You may be able to use /stand/sysinstall to choose WM, but snarfing around in the ports tree is a lot more fun -- see ports/x11-wm . :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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