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From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: how to start XFree86 ?
Date: 30 May 1997 12:37:10 GMT
Organization: Privat Site running FreeBSD-current
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In article <338d17f8.13929803@news.dowco.com>,
randys@dowco.com (Randy Shepherd) writes:
> Hi I'm new to UNIX and BSD. I want to start x-windows but don't know
first of all, itīs called Xwindow, X11 or only X (no trailing īs :-)
> how!. I was told I should put it in the path, but this is over my
> head.
The easiest waiy is to `startx` (type man startx) or startx xdm ...
Either in /etc/ttys or /etc/rc.local or as root from the console ...
--
Greetings, Andy
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