Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg (Polytropon)

2011-06-13 Thread Graham Bentley
> When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) Tom's Window Manager? A great little wm :) http://www.cpcnw.co.uk/twm/twmrc.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-13 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger wrote: > Sun's OpenWin (X11+Motif+DPS extension, IIRC) ... I'm fairly sure OpenWin did not include Motif, at least initially (although it may have been added later -- my experience with OpenWin ended with SunOS 4). olwm had a look and feel all its own. _

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chuck Swiger To: Polytropon Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 2:43:16 PM Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg I stand corrected. Tab Window Manager it iseither way, I use it because it's just plain simple

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Polytropon wrote: >> twm doesn't stand for "Trivial Window Manager"-- it stands >> for "Tom's Window Manager" because it was written by Tom >> LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware back around X11R1. > > Without any further investigation and research, my > brain seem

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Simmons
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > twm doesn't stand for "Trivial Window Manager"-- it stands for "Tom's Window > Manager" because it was written by Tom LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware > back around X11R1. Stood for, you mean. It evolved to Tab Window Manager, and no

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:25:02 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: > > I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different > > machines. > > When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) [ ... ] > > twm doesn't stand for "Tr

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: > I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different > machines. > When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) [ ... ] twm doesn't stand for "Trivial Window Manager"-- it stands for "Tom's Window Manager" because

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Daniel Staal To: John or Judy Hixson ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 8:24:23 PM Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg --As of June 10, 2011 4:26:27 PM -0700, John or Judy Hixson is alleged to have said: >

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-10 Thread Edward
On 6/11/11 7:26 AM, John or Judy Hixson wrote: > I'm having trouble getting Xorg to run on my just recently installed FreeBSD [snip] > Would appreciate anyone's suggestions. Thanks. John Hixson If you're trying to try FreeBSD as a Desktop, PC BSD (http://pcbsd.org/) would definitely make your lif

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of June 10, 2011 4:26:27 PM -0700, John or Judy Hixson is alleged to have said: I'm having trouble getting Xorg to run on my just recently installed FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE(i386) system. I'm trying to follow the procedures in Sections 5.3 and 5.4 of the Handbook and can't seem to get "startx"