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From: Bogusz Jelinski <bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl>
To: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@ACSU.Buffalo.EDU>
cc: Charlie Root <root@beyond.sdi.agate.net>, Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Help!
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Christopher J. Michaels wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Charlie Root wrote:
> > 
> > > Help! When I enter X windows using the /usr/X11F86/X, it brings up a 
> > > graphics window and a mouse that looks like an X (figures). Now what do 
> > > I do?? All the TTYS don't come up and I move the mouse around, click, 
> > > press buttons on the keyboard but nothing happens what do I do??
> >  running /usr/X11R6/X you start X server without the window manager
> >  (not mentioning the xterm).
> >  Make sure you have a window manager (twm, olwm, olvwm, fvwm)
> > !! Type startx to run X
> > 
> > Bogusz
> >  
> > 
> and make sure that you have an .xinitrc file in your home dir.
It's not needed. The default xinitrc is placed in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit
Anyway, I forgot to mention adding /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib
to the PATH. 

Bogusz