From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 10 12:23:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19649 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA19639 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.de (unverified [194.95.214.184]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:24:07 +0200 Received: (from malte.lance@gmx.net) by neuron.webmore.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03839; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:21:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:21:05 +0200 (CEST) To: "David W. Curry" Cc: malte.lance@gmx.net, FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: X Windows In-Reply-To: <35CEDE1B.75AEB234@magickalhome.com> References: <35CB537C.FE6F4EAA@magickalhome.com> <13775.338.197628.529235@neuron.webmore.de> <35CEDE1B.75AEB234@magickalhome.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13775.17834.238218.224575@neuron.webmore.de> Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David W. Curry writes: > Malte Lance wrote: > General info: Get familiar with some basic concepts of X-windows. I can not explain it here (maybe a thing for the fbsd-ezine). One sentence description: X-windows is a server-client-model where the server manages graphical resources and distributes them among the clients, that can connect to the server via some network to request some action. The implication of that is, that there will be no action if there is no X-server running. > > > Second I downloaded qvwm to clone a win > > > 95 desktop. My DISPLAY in env is ":0.0" I tried to start qvwm with > > > that device and it says can't open that display. Anyone know how do to > > > fix that? > > > > Infos needed: > > 1. How do you start qvwm ? > > I started it from the shell. : qvwm -display ":0.0" > > > 2. Is there a X-server running ? > > Not when I try to start it. The current windows manager is twm That's your problem. If you know where twm is started, then replace it with qvwm. If not, and you are interested in a quick test, do the following: "ps -auxg | grep twm" The 2. column contains the process-id of twm. Let us name that number twm-pid (for the duration of this little excercise) "kill -HUP twm-pid" ... where twm-pid is the number from the action above. Now move your mouse-pointer into an xterm and type "qvwm &" > > > 3. Is there already a window-manager running ? (assuming qvwm is > > a window-manager) > > > > qvwm I believe is a window manager in its own right. And no, I start it from > the shell so there is no windows maganer running. > > I really am not concerned if qvwm starts. I downloaded wine and can't figure > out how to get it to work either. I am just intersted in any solution to make > a 95 cloned windows manager work with my system. So if there is an easier > way, please let me know. fvwm95 ... it's in the ports-collection. Malte. > > > Malte. > > > > > Finally I tried a couple of games and they can not open > > > divice /dev/dsp. I would like to make this device, but I don't even > > > know what it is. I know this is a bunch of trivial stuff, but I would > > > appreciate the help. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > 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