From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 08:40:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA25191 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 08:40:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lib.amu.edu.pl (bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl [150.254.100.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA25182 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 08:40:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bogusz@localhost) by lib.amu.edu.pl (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA20269; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 15:43:02 +0100 Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 15:43:02 +0100 (MET) From: Bogusz Jelinski To: cloudel@world-net.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199610060905.EAA00254@cloudel.world-net.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, it was written: > > hello.. I am having trouble with xwindows.... > I have recently installed FreeBSD over the internet > with abunch of software packages... Took forever. > Now that I have everything, I can't get Xwindows to > work. I run X and it gives me the screen but nothing happens. > I don't understand why... When I switch back to my terminal > screen, I see a message couldn't load PEX something or other. > If you have a solution to my problem, please email me at > cloudel@world-net.net as soon as possible... > The reason for that is, that you run the X server without running any client (eg. window manager, xterm) - you see an X cursor, don't you? The solution is easy - run startx (or xinit) instead of X, which is a symbolic link to the Xserver. Remember to add /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib to your PATH. You can provide your own .xinitrc in your home directory, if you don't like the default one (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc). Have you run /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config? Bogusz