From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 12:46:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2967E16A4CF for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:46:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from msr8.hinet.net (msr8.hinet.net [168.95.4.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4E243D45 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:46:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net) Received: from sonic (61-227-219-240.dynamic.hinet.net [61.227.219.240]) by msr8.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA27155 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:46:42 +0800 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:37:13 -0400 From: Robert Storey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040720203713.56633935.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Windows X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:46:45 -0000 Dear Chris, I'm sure you'll get a lot of answers to this one, but I'll dive in. First off, I guess you mean Xwindows, not Windows X. Xwindows by itself is basic - you need a window manager to make it look nice. FreeBSD comes with a few good ones. Most people who want bells and whistles use KDE, which is included on the FreeBSD install CD. For each user (maybe you just have one), put a file in their home directory called .xinitrc with this content: exec startkde That will do it. There are other window managers, some of which are might lighter weight (thus faster) than KDE, even if not as pretty. For example, if you wanted fvwm, then file .xinitrc would have this content: exec fvwm This will only work, of course, if you've installed fvwm (it's also on the FreeBSD install CD). By the way, all of the above applies to Linux as well, this is not just a FreeBSD thing. best regards, Robert On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:55:05 -0500 "Christopher Smith" wrote: > I am a new user to FreeBSD. Is Windows X an extremely basic windows > program. I loaded your CD that I purchased from Microcenter onto my > computer and I was not able to see anything except a very primitive > windows program. If this is what is then I'm fine with it, but if > there is more how can I get to it? > > Thank You for you Time, > Christopher Smith > christophersmith224@msn.com