Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:18:12 +0100 From: Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>, Evans Durandisse <evans000_1999@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: About "how the GUI should look like after installation!" Message-ID: <20061102051812.3471c95f@loki.starkstrom.lan> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0611011843k66bc24ady84b06b5942bd25d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061102011805.88918.qmail@web60523.mail.yahoo.com> <20061102024053.0fc68d78@loki.starkstrom.lan> <d7195cff0611011843k66bc24ady84b06b5942bd25d0@mail.gmail.com>
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--Sig_U9iLIMCTWQuof.WUIIp7fBW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:43:49 -0600 "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss <elessar@bsdforen.de> wrote: >=20 > > > I logged in and typed > > > 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!). > > > Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand > > > shells. That's all I can see! No taskbars! No background picture > > > (greying grinded dots: like pixels in a low definition image). > > > There're just four squared box (shell). >=20 > > You need to install a window manager. >=20 > twm(1) idn't good enough for you? >=20 > evilwm > blackbox > e16 (or whatever they have changed the name too this week) > aewm >=20 > are all fairly degenerate wastes of memory. >=20 > But it will not do much good unless you > have also bothered to install browsers and such. I overlooked the 'four squared boxes' part. Apart from that, he obviously isn't pleased with the installed one. So, he should install something else. Which one is up to him, I won't recommend. --=20 | /"\ ASCII ribbon | GnuPG Key ID | e86d b753 3deb e749 6c3a | | \ / campaign against | 0xbbcaad24 | 5706 1f7d 6cfd bbca ad24 | | X HTML in email | .the next sentence is true. | | / \ and news | .the previous sentence was a lie. | --Sig_U9iLIMCTWQuof.WUIIp7fBW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFSXGEH31s/bvKrSQRAmYIAJ4ua6hyc4hWcRDH0+jWFP0OF7/PzgCaAg93 dMTD9zh5mOtrwpq129Q0jRM= =srGG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_U9iLIMCTWQuof.WUIIp7fBW--
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