From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 13:41:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02300 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:41:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02267 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25594; Tue, 5 May 1998 13:41:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 13:41:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: FreeBSD Questions cc: Colin Nugent Subject: Re: Starting X In-Reply-To: <354E1F23.D266F67C@san.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 May 1998, Studded wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > > > Have searched the manual FAQ's etc, and XFREE86, for > > reference to the following; > > > > I am able to get an X server running by accessing /usr/X11R6/bin > > and running the server from there. If I use startx or xinit I get a message > > saying the server is not in the path. Try running 'rehash' and make sure /usr/X11R6/bin is in your PATH. > > 2 When I get a server running as described above, I cannot get any windows > > or colour, just the mouse pointer on a grey background. How do I get the > > window manager to appear? Run `startx', not the X server directly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message