From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 21:59:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15950 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:59:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15943 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:59:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul7.u.washington.edu (root@saul7.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.2]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id VAA15510; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:58:46 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul7.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id VAA03522; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:58:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:58:18 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: johan Ahmad cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE HOWTO - FreeBSD 2.2.8 In-Reply-To: <19990113044309.5568.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, johan Ahmad wrote: >Hello, > >I had install the above OS successfully. Anybody could advise or direct >me to a site whereby i can configure and have KDE as my xwindows? Also, >this may sound silly but how do I know I have all the XWindows like >kde,afterstep,fvwm2 installed in my pc?? There is a slight misunderstanding. X Windows gives you the bitmapped display. A window manager gives you the user interface. KDE, afterstep et al are window managers. You can find out if they are installed many ways. I would look in /var/db/pkg to see if there is a directory there for the window manager in question. >Second, I got 3 other CD's that comes with the OS namely: >a) Live filesystem, CVS repository >b) Packages/Ports, and >c) Ports > >My question, what does these CDs (a,b,c) do and how do I install & >configure it? Is it important to have all installed? I've tried reading >FreeBSD.ORG - Handbook but i am sorry i couldn't tie all those together. >Thanks for any help. You do not install cd a. You may install CDs b and c but why? You already have the data on CD. Putting it on your hard drive is a waste of space. The purpose of CDs ab and b is they are where you have much of the software that is ported to FreeBSD. I don't know what all is on them, but I'll bet that KDE and fvwm2 are. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message