Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:53:07 -0000 From: "Philip Pereira" <info@wintellect.co.uk> To: "Phil Webb" <philwebb@piperain.com>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Howdy! Message-ID: <001901c16af3$e93beba0$c08901d4@wintellect.com> References: <002f01c16af0$85410250$6401a8c0@phils>
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Hey Phil, my name's Phil too. Any idea how to set up KDE as the default windowmanager when you type in "startx" ? When I put it in my "xinit.rc" home file, I get a "$Display not configured" message... any ideas? Cheers Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Webb" <philwebb@piperain.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 8:36 PM Subject: Howdy! > Just poppin' in to say hi, so "HI"! > > There, I'm done with it! :) > > I have been piddling with FreeBSD since 4.0 but now am getting "serious" > > with it. I work for a large office supply chain selling computers etc. > and > occaisonally folks come in with *nix questions so I suppose I should > have a > reasonable grasp of it eh? > > I am pretty familiar with Windows (even got XP to dual boot with FreeBSD > > 4.4 on this machine) and run FreeBSD on 2 machines at home. That way if > I > screw one up, I have something to compare to! > > At any rate, I am now starting to actually get around fairly well and am > > even getting dangerous. To Wit: re-compiled the kernel and got my > onboard > sound working (Oh happy day!) and walked around with a swolen head for a > > couple of days. > > I have Greg Lehey's "Complete FreeBSD 3rd edition" and have Annelise > Andersons book on order (waiting impatiently I might add!:) ). Nothing > beats the printed word for untangling messes. > > Now my goals are to get the CD drives to play music CD's as well as burn > > (on the burner of course), get SAMBA working so The Wife can print > across > our little network and get my own dadgum printer working. Unfortunately > my > HP 932c, while a great little printer doesn't support Postscript. :( > > As I saw in another thread, *nix does require one to pay attention to > details, so thats good exercise too! To that end I suppose I'd better > learn to type well. At the moment the backspace key seems to be my best > > friend in KDE. Once I start with vi I'm really gonna be in trouble! :) > > Anyway, just a word of encouragement to the frustrated and thanks to > those > who help. > > Have Fun! > > phil > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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