Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Indeed you are right. I installed xinit from ports but something didn't happen as it should have. I tried again using pkg_add as you suggested and startx does exist now. I installed olvwm several days ago and it did not pull in the xorg stuff also. Thanks for the help! Best regards, Fred Samu

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: [snip] I installed x11-servers/xorg-server but maybe should have installed Xorg instead. However, from looking at the pkg-descr for xorg it looks like it will install a huge amount of software that will not ge

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: [snip] I installed x11-servers/xorg-server but maybe should have installed Xorg instead. However, from looking at the pkg-descr for xorg it looks like it will install a huge amount of software that will not get used. I am reluctant to do this. I

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Fred Boatwright wrote: > pkg_info | grep xinit doesn't return anything > then, you doesn't have installed xinit, and startx can't be here pkg_add -rv xinit and then, if it doesn't fail, try again: rehash which startx > rehash > which startx > startx: Command no

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
pkg_info | grep xinit doesn't return anything rehash which startx startx: Command not found whereis X X: /usr/local/bin/X pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X pkg_which: Command not found Oliver: I used your porgle tool to find pkg_which and will install it later. Porgle appears to be a very useful too

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Tim Kellers
Fred, From man startx(1): SEE ALSO xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5) Try: # whereis X If X is installed, it should return: # X: /usr/local/bin/X pkg_which if X is installed should return: # pkg_which /usr/local/bin/X xorg-server-1.7.5,1 If it doesn't, then the full

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
pkg_info | grep xinit rehash (if using some *csh) which startx ? Samuel Martín Moro {EPITECH.} tek4 CamTrace S.A.S (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 1 Allée de la Venelle 92150 Suresnes FRANCE "Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ..." Xorg.conf(5) On Thu, A

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hi Oliver and Tim, I installed xinit but startx still doesn't exist. whereis returns nothing and man startx returns nothing. Fred Tim Kellers wrote: > > /usr/ports/x11/xinit > > On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): > > beta# whereis startx > > startx: /usr/local/bin/startx /

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Tim Kellers
/usr/ports/x11/xinit On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): beta# whereis startx startx: /usr/local/bin/startx /usr/local/man/man1/startx.1.gz beta# pkg_which /usr/local/bin/startx xinit-1.2.0 beta# whereis xinit xinit: /usr/local/bin/xinit /usr/local/man/man1/xinit.1.gz /us

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Fred Boatwright wrote: > Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports > under X11 but I don't want to install all of them to find it. It's in x11/xinit. You can use "porgle" to find out: http://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/porgle.py?w=p&q=startx It has four hits, but it's