a quick question

[Nikolas Britton]

andrei wrote:

>Thank you for your quick  replay but i am still not sure about a couple of 
>things:
>I have tried what Mr. Lane suggested ... it took lets say about 8-9 hours 
>(it connects to an ftp and starts downloading packages and installing them 
>from all that writing on the screen and i have cable 500kbps down high speed 
>cable or something) and yet when i restart i shoose option 1 (default boot 
>freebsd) and log in as user or root and startx and i get 2 xterm pannels a 
>login and a clock.i think i am missing something ... could you guys please 
>help. oh and i saw an error more or less when i esit the so called startx it 
>says radeon failed ..... i would assume i am still using xorg or something 
>... thaks again for your help and hone i really don't have to go back to 
>windows cause i don't want to ...   :o)
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yes, read what I posted here be4:
"Yes you need to install a desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, etc) 
and then setup X, It looks like you already have X setup as you can get 
to the default twm window manager.  What you need to do now install a 
desktop Environment and then tell X to use it instead of twm. Everything 
you need to know is documented in chapter 5 section 7 of the FreeBSD 
Handbook: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
"

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>On Sunday 26 December 2004 18:43, andrei wrote:
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>>Hi, my name is Andrei and I have recently purchased FreeBSD from BSDMall
>>and I ran into few problems. I am a windows user but i have some experince
>>in Linux BUT, I got rid of my windows machine and installed FreeBDS. After
>>the install for some reason i log into root and i use the startx command
>>since i get no GUI interface and i get 3 pannels (light green bar and 
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>white
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>>background and a clock at the top (it looks like a 16 bit OS or 
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>something).
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>>Can you tell me what could be wrong ... any help will be apreciated. (i am
>>gladly getting rid of windows and i am probably not give up easily that is
>>why i would like some help) ... Thank you for the time taken to read my
>>email and helping me. My system is 3.06Ghz intel, all in wonder ati 9700
>>pro, 200Gb WD, 1Gb ram, cd-rw 52x24x52, dvd-rw 4x2x32, sound blaster 
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>audigy
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>andrei!
>
>welcome!
>
>There is nothing wrong, I think.  It sounds as if you have properly 
>installed 
>X.  But X isn't the friendliest desktop around, as you've seen.
>
>You should be able to get a full-featured desktop by issuing the following 
>commands:
>
>cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3
>make all install clean
>login andrei (or some NON-ROOT user)
>startx
>
>KDE is only one of several "window managers" that are available, but it is 
>probably the most widely used.
>
>It is recommended that you use a NON-ROOT user unless you specifically need 
>root access.
>
>There is a way to configure your system to log in directly to the GUI, but I 
>
>use the following in ~/.cshrc:
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>if ($?DISPLAY) then
>        set history = 100
>        set savehist = 100
>else
>        startx
>endif
>
>This will cause FreeBSD to issue the "startx" command on a per-user basis.
>
>If you get that X desktop and don't know how to get out of it, press 
><CTRL><ALT><BACKSPACE>.  This will shut down X and put you back at the 
>command line.
>
>Thanks for purchasing FreeBSD!
>
>lane
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