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How do I use the X?

How do I use the X?

Post by Noam Meltze » Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:00:00



Well, I finally managed to install FreeBSD 3 (I'm a newbie, btw) and
then I tried to start the X.
When I started it with the command "X" I got a gray screen wih a mouse
pointer shaped as an 'X'.
When I started it with the command "startx" I managed to get a full
color screen with 3 windows on it, all of them actually got the command
prompt of the unix shell.
Once, I saw on Linux that there is a Start menu on the buttom of the
screen, I didn't see one on the screen, and I'm really stucked, what
should I do?
Please somebody help me to start using FreeBSD on the beginning.

Noam Meltzer

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How do I use the X?

Post by Tuyet Tram DANG NG » Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:00:00



Quote:>Well, I finally managed to install FreeBSD 3 (I'm a newbie, btw) and
>then I tried to start the X.
>When I started it with the command "X" I got a gray screen wih a mouse
>pointer shaped as an 'X'.
>When I started it with the command "startx" I managed to get a full
>color screen with 3 windows on it, all of them actually got the command
>prompt of the unix shell.
>Once, I saw on Linux that there is a Start menu on the buttom of the
>screen, I didn't see one on the screen, and I'm really stucked, what
>should I do?
>Please somebody help me to start using FreeBSD on the beginning.

It seems that you make a confusion between 'X' and 'windows manager'

X is a window system  : it provides the graphical environment where
client windows appear in.

Windows manager are programs which use X and which provide functionnalities to
control the appearance of your windows shape, border...
and how the user can interacts with window.
Depending on the windows manager you have, you can have menus, buttons,
colored windows borderd and all that stuff.
Example of windows manager are ctwm, kde, afterstep, enlightenment...
(see on http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ to have a look on each one)

Using 'startx' the X server to initialize a X Window Sesssion
and then read the .xinitrc (where you often put a line launching your favorite
windows manager)

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How do I use the X?

Post by Kyle Fin » Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:00:00


What you are seeing is the X window default screen.  You need to install a
window manager like FVWM95 when you will have the Start menu.

X window system is like a traffic cop not something you see and hear.

Kyle


> Well, I finally managed to install FreeBSD 3 (I'm a newbie, btw) and
> then I tried to start the X.
> When I started it with the command "X" I got a gray screen wih a mouse
> pointer shaped as an 'X'.
> When I started it with the command "startx" I managed to get a full
> color screen with 3 windows on it, all of them actually got the command
> prompt of the unix shell.
> Once, I saw on Linux that there is a Start menu on the buttom of the
> screen, I didn't see one on the screen, and I'm really stucked, what
> should I do?
> Please somebody help me to start using FreeBSD on the beginning.

> Noam Meltzer

> ICQ UIN: 4853872

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