From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 24 10:10:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29875 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:10:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (Kirk.netunlimited.net [208.128.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29869 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:10:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brownicm@prokyon.com) Received: from molly.my.domain (Khan-308.netunlimited.net [208.158.212.119]) by Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA29000; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:10:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:08:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Browning To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: oops...forgot about apps Cc: Kevin Weiss Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After some thought. You're using startx? Read the man page for startx and find out where it's getting it's default configuration from. I don't use startx so I don't know, but I assume it looks for a .xinitrc in your home directory. Failing that, it looks in a couple other places for a system default. It's finding one somewhere and I assume you're getting twm or some other window mgr. You can either copy that default config file to your home dir as .xinitrc and change whatever window mgr the file calls to afterstep. Or write your own .xinitrc. Thusly: ############# # # ~/.xinitrc # My X Config # ############ #!sh afterstep You'll need this file sooner rather than later. There are other things that should go in here. Read the xinit manpage, the startx manpage. On 24-Jan-99 Chris Browning wrote: > I'm kinda new myself, but I'll see what I can do here. If anyone out there > thinks I'm leading you down the wrong track, maybe they could help. > >(snip) >> 2) afterstep - trying to make default > Do you have a .xinitrc file in your home directory? That's where you would do > that. What's the default now? > ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Chris Browning Date: 24-Jan-99 Time: 12:47:18 "if you believe in Nothing... honey, It believes in you." ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message