From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 15:38:35 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 C0FBA16A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F163A43D45 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 15:38:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i34McUXI053733 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:38:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i34McUq5053732; Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:38:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:38:30 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Steven Soria Message-ID: <20040404223830.GB53492@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Steven Soria , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040404213836.94989.qmail@web61102.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040404213836.94989.qmail@web61102.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040323, clamav-milter version 0.70a cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is Xterm and what do i do with it? 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: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 22:38:36 -0000 --CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 02:38:36PM -0700, Steven Soria wrote: > I installed FreeBSD and everything but now this thing called Xterm comes = up. What do i do in this wndow? xterm(1) is the standard terminal emulator provided by X Windows. It gives you access to the Unix shell prompt. Sounds like you've managed to bring up the default xinit(1) setup which gives you just a bare xterm(1) -- which means you're starting X windows by using startx each time you log in, rather than running xdm(1) and using the graphical login. Try running some X Windows programs. xeyes(1) is vaguely amusing the first time you run it: % xeyes & and it will probably help you to run a windowmanager: % twm &=20 (twm is not everybodies' idea of the greatest windowmanager ever, but it does the job, and it is useful in this situation as it comes by default with the basic X Windows installation.) Once you get bored, just type 'exit' in the original xterm window, and X will close down putting you back at the console prompt. Probably what you want to do after that is configure yourself a nicely customised ~/.xinitrc file: the first step should be to install and run some sort of decent window manager -- there's several in the x11-wm category in the ports. I like windowmaker myself. Or you can go the whole hog and install the Gnome desktop or the KDE desktop -- either of which will require you to download quite a lot of stuff, and spend hours watching it compile if that's the way you choose to do things. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAcI5mdtESqEQa7a0RAoIPAJ9kNYjMzuUacPRQYUXPm8+G+MffHwCeMcXE JyXcMSlFPz1lq8n8zydTRsY= =PMu7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5--