From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 24 22:44:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA26946 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA26939 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eroubinc@u.washington.edu) Received: from dante36.u.washington.edu (eroubinc@dante36.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.196]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id WAA24006; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:44:00 -0800 Received: from localhost (eroubinc@localhost) by dante36.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id WAA30988; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:44:00 -0800 Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:44:00 -0800 (PST) From: Evgeny Roubinchtein To: David Banning cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Windows not fully loading... In-Reply-To: <36AC0CE8.2C20@worldy.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 Mon, 25 Jan 1999, David Banning wrote: >Hi - sorry to bother you overly burdened volunteers with >my pesky problem. > >I only recently purchased the FreeBSD version 2.2.8 - Everything >seems to be fine except X Windows. > >For X Windows the installation went fine. No errors. It went into >graphics mode fine during installation. I've tried several graphics >configurations - they all seem to work fine - until I type "X" to >run X Windows. Try "startx" instead. "X" just starts the X server, which gives you the mouse pointer and the gray weave background. "startx" is a shell script which uses xinitrc to start the X-server _and_ load some nice programs, most important of which for most people is the "window manager:" it lets you move windows around your desktop, generally has some kind of menus to start programs, etc. "startx" will use the file .xinitrc in your home directory to figure out which programs to start, and if there is no .xinitrc in your home directory, it will use the system-wide default. (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc on my system). The default xinitrc starts twm -- a "classic", but a bit old window manager. You will probably want to: cp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc ,and modify to taste. I suggest you take a look at the window manager called WindowMaker. (in the ports collection). It isn't very big, looks quite good (IMO), much of the configuration is GUI-based, and it can do menus, etc in different languages. The fact that X server is able to start with no problems is a very good sign: it means the chances that other X programs ("X clients") will work are very good indeed. I hope this helps -- Evgeny Roubinchtein, eroubinc@u.washington.edu ................... DNPG: Do Not Pass Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message