From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 21 16:53:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28334 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:53:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28328 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:52:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA27618; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:52:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:52:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor Reply-To: Brett Taylor To: Thomas Hood cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD 2.2.5 and Afterstep. In-Reply-To: <358D2B9A.F033CDD3@cs.mun.ca> 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 Howdy, On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Thomas Hood wrote: > I need some help. I'm trying to get Afterstep set up on my FreeBSD shell > account on the network, but nothing I try works. The server runs FREEBSD > 2.2.5 and it already has Afterstep installed into > /usr/X11/lib/X11/afterstep. Huh? In lib? Really? I wanna claim that you are actually on a Linux machine as the port (for either 1.0 or 1.4.5.3) doesn't put anything in /usr/X11/lib/X11/afterstep, whereas RH Linux certainly does, besides the fact that we don't have (at least by default) a /usr/X11. Try the following things first: 1) type "which afterstep" - on FreeBSD it will give you : peloton: {3} which afterstep /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep 2) I assume you are logging into an xsession immediately, rather than logging in and using startx (which won't make much difference) 3) create a file called .xsession in your home directory with your favorite editor that has at least the following: /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep or whatever you found was the answer from the "which afterstep" in (1) 4) log back out 5) log back in :-) If you are using startx, instead of creating the file .xsession in your home directory, call it instead .xinitrc and you'll be set. ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ If you meet a beautiful woman wearing skintight, clingy lycra, and one of the first five words out of your mouth is "Campagnolo" . . . . . you might be a cyclist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message