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From: and@mgulvt.mgul.ac.ru (Andrey A. Perminov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stupid Newbie XFree86 Question...
Date: 15 Sep 1995 15:08:42 GMT
Organization: Moscow State University of Forestry (Russia)
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Brian Maloney (brmalon2@vt.edu) wrote:
: Hey, I finally re-compiled my kernel so my PS/2 mouse would work with
: XWindows, but I just have one question.  WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU GET
: XFree86 running?  All I get is An "X" mouse cursor, and the system
: seems to hang after that.  Do I need to be running some other propgram
: first or what?

Try 'startx'. It will read /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc and execute it.
Or you can create file .xinitrc in your home directory.

There is example of my .xinitrc file

#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

xset s on

# start some nice programs

twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494+51 -fn koi6x13 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 -fn koi6x13 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 -fn koi6x13 -name login

Hope this help you.

Regards,

Andrey


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Andrey A Perminov       e-mail: and@mgul.ac.ru
System Administrator
Moscow State University of Forestry (Russia)