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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!sunews!news From: Mark Blackman <markb@met.reading.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stupid Newbie XFree86 Question... Date: 11 Sep 1995 19:50:11 GMT Organization: met. dept, univ. of reading Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4323tj$p0q@susscsc1.rdg.ac.uk> References: <431ofm$d89@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: swpc30.reading.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586) X-URL: news:431ofm$d89@solaris.cc.vt.edu brmalon2@vt.edu (Brian Maloney) 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? > Is a window manager running(twm,fvwm,olwm..)? If you used "startx" to start things up, it should have started some default window manager for you. In which case, your mouse buttons should give you access to some pulldown menus to start other applications. mark