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#! rnews 1438 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nerd.apk.net!sed.psrw.com!news.eff.org!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!news.nkn.net!dfw.nkn.net!usenet From: Syntax <syntax@eramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Solved X Problems Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 23:28:06 -0500 Organization: National Knowledge Network Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31CE1956.2781E494@eramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup7.eramp.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Hiya, Just a public thank you to Joerg Wunsch for helping me to get my X Windows going. Once he explained that xdm is the X server and that the others are window managers the whole thing fell into place in 5 minutes. I'm sorry to say it, but Installing and Running FreeBSD from Walnut Creek is not real clear on this point on page 97 so here is what I learned with Joerg's help in oerder to get fvwm working. Go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit, edit the the line that says twm & to fvwm & and comment out any of the xterm lines you don't want other than the login one. Then just type startx to get it functioning. Again FressBSD is a great OS and I am enjoying hacking on it. David Chewning syntax@eramp.net