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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!hermes.sovam.com!sovam!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: how to start XFree86 ? Date: 29 May 1997 19:42:13 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 32 Sender: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@ab152.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <5mkm6l$itq$2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <338d17f8.13929803@news.dowco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ab152.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: un1i X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970409; AIX 4.1] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41884 Randy Shepherd <randys@dowco.com> wrote: > Hi I'm new to UNIX and BSD. I want to start x-windows but don't know > how!. I was told I should put it in the path, but this is over my > head. > Maybe I should go back a few steps? > Thanks for any help. A bit more information would be usefull... You did install it, didn't you? :-) Did you run xf86config (that's /usr/X11/bin/xf86config) ? To use X (and programs using X) you have to have /usr/X11R6/bin (or /usr/X11/bin, if /usr/X11 is a link to /usr/X11R6) in your path. The $PATH variable is set in $HOME/.profile or $HOME/.login . But usually this should be set by default, check it with "echo $PATH". To start X use the startx command (xdm is more complicated). startx executes /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc , which you can copy to $HOME/.xinitrc and change to your wishes. The X server terminates, when the program which is exec'd in xinitrc terminates. Usually that's the window manager. If there's a problem, like your monitor not synchronizising and making strange sounds, you should terminate the X server immediately. You can also switch from X to one of the virtual terminals with CTRL-ALT-F1 (resp. F2,F3) and back with ALT-F4. If the configuration from xf86config doesn't seem optimal, have a look at /usr/X11/lib/X11/Cards and /usr/X11/lib/X11/doc/ . Bye, Philipp -- P. Mergenthaler http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/