Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:52:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: Thomas Hood <thood@cs.mun.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD 2.2.5 and Afterstep. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980621174416.27282A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <358D2B9A.F033CDD3@cs.mun.ca>
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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.
*********************************************************
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