From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 19:02:42 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAD316A419 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aharrison@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEA613C4D1 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:02:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aharrison@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a73so3373834pye for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:02:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nXAXQU5UqVDaw2uIM7f+8aHHHKt8BqaOzFr7d6V1icA7SrJYxZ+6yia/763rL+gTYpDEimBmKKWWKqI0L+4Q/EcBVNTyxD1QSbRbA9CRpYn7m8puayk3j1l+RRYMNK63rb7tNQWSr4ChhQB1+IR9150O06jOBHgOgPm0s1H+4dk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UufnTzLGNNpHEj/Gj9XxqVk/Kbm9aU7ch6sJnvrtnsalbGojvl9Oac6Vd7qqorgMQPjN5M+1ItwN5d7XdP1Da8xV0mDDPJvQaeTNr3zBXd9rfmQviyQq/T5JWw/H3dCUjyQLJxRUdaG6VZs0MUwZIVW8M2gcVSlKnyBhQkkBeok= Received: by 10.64.76.15 with SMTP id y15mr5053335qba.1185217360903; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:02:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.40.20 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:02:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:02:40 -0400 From: "Andy Harrison" To: "User Questions" In-Reply-To: <539c60b90707230936p5462e842vad54446776ea164f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <539c60b90707230936p5462e842vad54446776ea164f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: quickie: howto? window manager & xterms, but no kde/gnome/xfce X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:02:42 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/23/07, Steve Franks wrote: > I'm not totally opposed to what comes up in X if you start with no > .xinitrc, but it's a tad ugly. I'd ideally like to have a nifty > window manager, like one of those new 3d ones, but I find no point in > running kde/gnome/xfce - I launch everything (firefox, etc.) from a > prompt anyway. So howto? I presume I just have to put some things > instead of "exec xfce-session" in my .xinitrc? Is there a guide to If you're going to try beryl/aixgl, it would probably suffice just to put 'exec beryl-manager' in your .xinitrc file, but I'm guessing really. I've never run beryl without kde behind it. Although I *have* had kde fail to start completely/correctly and I beryl still ran fine. - -- Andy Harrison public key: 0x67518262 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFGpPtoNTm8fWdRgmIRAndpAJ9uxQ41p9rLEkhVIriKFCVVgXyY+wCg2uFo 9seEi4moVhWBeLyOfEQr444= =1/ZA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----