Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:29:19 -0400 From: "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com> To: "Thor Legvold" <tlegvold@c2i.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Setting up X11 (xdm + a WM) under 3.2 Message-ID: <007301befedf$103abe80$01010101@bopper> References: <4.1.19990914175927.00943d20@popa.c2i.net>
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hi, if used sysinstall to setup your window manager, it probably set up the config under /your home diretory/.xinitrc or maybe just /your home dir/xinitrc i'm not sure about the dot just edit this file and let me know if it works.. :) Bill billieakay@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Thor Legvold <tlegvold@c2i.net> To: <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 12:02 PM Subject: Setting up X11 (xdm + a WM) under 3.2 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Reposted, as my mailer seemed to die as I posted.... > > Just got my 3.2 Walnut Creek CDROM, installed it and everything looks good. > I may have made a blunder as I chose several window managers under install > hoping I could try several out, switching between them until I decide which > one I would like to use regularly. > > Unfortunately I'm X11 illiterate and have no idea where to start getting > things set up. The install went fine, I can do "startx" and get the WM > started, but _which_ WM starts I have no controll over :-( As far as I can > tell it's the last one installed by the installer, so I suspect a symlink > somewhere. I've used /stand/sysinstall several times to try to remove/add > the different WM's, and it seems as though most of the docs and binaries > do indeed get installed, although starting them is a problem. I haven't > managed to get "Gnome" environment up at all, as far as I can see. KDE, > FVWM, AfterStep and Enlightenment I've managed to run (partly within each > other....ooops!) > > I helped a friend install Redhat 6.0 recently, and I noticed he got xdm > with a "chooser" installed automagically, and can choose which desktop > environment/WM he would like to run at login time. Very nice. Is this > trivial under FreeBSD? Or should I install one WM at a time, try it out for > a while, then uninstall and try a new one? > > Hope this is enough info to get help for. I'm unix-literate but not X11 (I > used NextStep for several years). > > Regards, > Thor > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 6.0.2i > > iQCVAwUBN95jlueXYrrbR3MRAQEFuwP7BckaT5DH9F+rTC7abXck8Ua7oWXUbHDu > BjTTEhcqMOlZcjdB98sKJDfsJikE7aCSODHccpZWFBuHJdMUdqa87l4xXzfWTknY > 9wlpHcJm44HiuyvWHHRh4PEUrBv8JDAtSwJ8HZfKi2hBnuZiMknA6MVbCSzZH2LR > C2bVuJ4CEKg= > =w9jZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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