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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!netnews.nwnet.net!news.nodak.edu!plains.nodak.edu!not-for-mail From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree86 & XFree86 Beta Question Date: 8 Oct 1996 17:38:13 -0500 Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 36 Message-ID: <53el4l$mo6@plains.nodak.edu> References: <3252a363.3420845@news.clover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <3252a363.3420845@news.clover.net>, Dominic W. Chan <dwchan@telerama.lm.com> wrote: >1) do i have to d/l all of the bin file in 3.1.2.g directory or do >just need a few many of the files in the distribution are X servers for various video card and you do not need them. you will need the libraries, fonts, binaries, and some files are optional. read the RELNOTES file to determine which files you will want/need. >2) let say i download it the file, where do i put it before i >extracted it?? anywhere you have the space. you can then extract (as root) the files using the command: # tar zxvf 312Gxxxx.tgz -C /usr/X11R6 where xxxx is the name of one of the files you want to extract. Be sure to make a link from your server to /usr/X11R6/bin/X >3) which is the best or most useful win manager for X-windows this is a personal perference issue. many people like fvwm. >4) how do you config what start-up when you first start X (i.e., in my >it start 2 x-term and X-login) if you are running xinit, or startx, then ~/.xinitrc holds your startup commands. If you choose to run xdm, then ~/.xsessions holds startup commands, be sure ~/.xsessions is executable. >5) what are some of X-utilities I should install for X-windows look at the descriptions of the commands and install whatever sounds interesting.