From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 9:25:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C591523F for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:25:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11QvOs-0009X4-00; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:25:46 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: tlegvold@c2i.net (Thor Legvold) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 setup on fresh 3.2 install In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:59:12 GMT." <199909141549.RAA10926@falk.c2i.net> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:25:46 +0200 Message-ID: <36645.937326346@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:59:12 GMT, Thor Legvold wrote: > Unfortunately I'm X11 illiterate and have no idea where to start > getting things set up. The install went fine, I can do "startx" and > get the WM started, but _which_ WM starts I have no controll over :-( Assuming you don't have the money or inclination to get hold of the X User's Guide and/or the X Administrator's Guide, you could look at the following manpage: startx(1) xdm(1) You will also want to look at the gunk in: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm > I helped a friend install Redhat 6.0 recently, and I noticed he got > xdm with a "chooser" installed automagically, and can choose which > desktop environment/WM he would like to run at login time. Very > nice. Is this trivial under FreeBSD? Or should I install one WM at a > time, try it out for a while, then uninstall and try a new one? You may be able to use /stand/sysinstall to choose WM, but snarfing around in the ports tree is a lot more fun -- see ports/x11-wm . :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message