Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:18:05 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: nesi_unanaowo@net.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Window manager problem. Message-ID: <19990126201805Q.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:13:14 -0800" <36AE3DFA.269DDA0C@net.com> References: <36AE3DFA.269DDA0C@net.com>
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Hi Nesi, You really should be using the ports collection, or at least loading a package that has already been adapted for FreeBSD. These are very important handbook topics and I'd encourage anyone to make sure they understood their basics before doing very much at all with a newly installed system. Good Luck, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net From: Nesi Unanaowo <nesi_unanaowo@net.com> > Hi, > I am still unable to get rid of the default window manager (twm) > which is making life a little unbeareble with FreeBSD 3.0. Just to be > sure that my distro wasn't the problem (quite unlikely) I went out to > http://fvwm.math.uh.edu/ and grabbed fvwm2-1.10.tar.gz. I successully > compiled this package and had the binaries/man pages where they were > supposed to be. Thereafter i proceded to create a .xinitrc file in my > home directory and also copied the sample file that came with the > package to my home directory as .fvwm2rc. Both files are owned by > me and have both the read and executable bits set. > But after rebooting my system ( I didn't think i had to ) i logged in > as myself and started X (startx). I was surprised that the default > window manager (twm) popped up again. Obviously there is > something i am not doing right but can't for the life of me figure > out. I will really appreciate any input as I am getting a little > frustrated with this exercise. Interestingly though, when i > do a 'ps' it shows that a process with '/export/home/nesi/.xinitrc > is running on my system. > > TIA > Nesi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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