Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:38:01 +1100 (EST) From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Geoffrey Robinson <grobin@accessv.com> Cc: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-Windows desktop is larger than my screen. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971217132034.22713A-100000@zipper.zip.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3496FDA7.CEC3CE06@accessv.com>
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Geoffrey, is this a new installation you're working on? If so, and you haven't fiddled much yet, the problem may be simpler than we suggested. (Please excuse if this is too basic) On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: > In fact, I'm not even sure I'm running the right X-Windows. Somebody > told me that it looks very similar to Win'95 and there is a picture of > it in the Walnut Creek CDROM catalog that doesn't resemble what I have > either. Am I using the wrong program? It sounds to me like you're saying that you _expect_ to see the above features, but you _don't_ see them. Right? If so, then you're running whatever window manager comes up as default. When I installed mine, it ran "twm" window manager all by itself, but it never told me so. Window managers let you do all sorts of useful things to the windows on the screen. Except for twm, it's... well... you'll find another one easier. I have no idea if it's easier to set up a better window manager, or to learn to beat twm into submission, but I prefer the first idea. If you have graphical web access, take a look at this. http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~csuoq/window_managers/screenshots/twm-system.gif (GIF graphic about 14kb) If your screen looks kinda like that, it's twm. Tell us, and then we'll understand better. Regards, -*Sue*-
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