Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:46:04 +0530 From: Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com> To: "Jerold McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Configuration Woes Message-ID: <d85a51ff0609122316t78f36c5ai6a9a642c93e75f16@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1GN9wR-0005Pn-4i@sys21.mail.msu.edu> References: <d85a51ff0609120028o10fa699awc05fd6532e2dd103@mail.gmail.com> <d85a51ff0609120030x89298ddgab65bdbbcb6e29b4@mail.gmail.com> <E1GN9wR-0005Pn-4i@sys21.mail.msu.edu>
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> > Some updates: > > > > Following this I did a fresh install using the FreeBSD6.1 CD1. Xorg > > installed is 6.9.0. > > I did not run xorgconfig or anything. There was no /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > either. From the command-line I ran "xdm" and the GUI started ... I > > could login ... and then that's about it. > > > > 1. The Mouse still does not work ... may be I should try MouseSystems > > protocol. > > I can't say much about the mouse. I usually let it figure out > things itself and it works. Is it a plain ps2 mouse (with round ps2 > connector)? I just do the mouse test during sysinstall and it works. Well, well ... sometimes I feel these days being a Linux user is no big deal. May be it never was but at least in the old days, by being a Linux user, I used to be more aware of what goes inside my box and what lights blink to tell what story. These days, Linux ... should I say most of the distros rather, make you feel like a pampered fuzzy user ... you really don't need to know an awful lot more about your box to get a fully functional system than you need to install M$ Window$. Some like it that way, but for me the fun is lost ... perhaps _the_ reason why I switched to FreeBSD ... anything comparable could do for me but I just happened to get my hands on these couple of ISOs. > > > 2. What should I do about GNOME / KDE etc. I am not aching to get a > > jazzy a GUI on my FreeBSD installation. I can make do with a very > > minimal one. But I want a minimal one at least now, I just have to get > > this running or I can't sleep. > > If you don't want a fancy GUI desktop, then skip KDE and Gnome. > > I prefer to use Afterstep. It installs nicely. > It is found in ports at /usr/ports/x11-wm/afterstep > It can be a little confusing at first to set up and configure - as are > all X things - but after getting it configured for me, it gives me what I > need: several windows for logging in to various hosts, a button to bring > up Firefoxand X support for whatever I run, such as OpenOffice or Xpdf > or Xmahjongg and a couple of other games, etc. > > The only thing I haven't managed to my liking is getting it to create > anchor buttons for each thing when I bring it up. It only does so for the > minimized windows. I got that in one version, but it seemed to mess up > the focus control and click to bring forward action so I gave up on that. > > I edited: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc > to make it work my way. I think you can make individual .xinitrc files > in home directories as well, but I wanted mine to work for all of my > small handful of accounts so I edited the main one. I am tired of these two lookalikes ... KDE and GNOME. They weren't in the olden days ... but they have undergone some serious plastic surgery of late and now I don't like the taste of either. So XFCE or Afterstep would be welcome changes. As another poster mentioned Ratpoison, I would be keen to find out about it too ... since it has been dubbed for being keyboard friendly. I hate mice. > > Have fun, You bet I am having fun. I am writing a blog article on why I picked up FreeBSD. You can find it after a while on my sparse blog http://shoddykid.blogspot.com. > > ////jerry >
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