On 3/21/22 20:09, Michael Needham wrote:
Greetings:
I have been using Linux for over 25 years and have used FreeBSD off and on in
that time. As we speak I am running an Arch based distro and thinking of
switching my daily driver to FBSD.
My experience with X despite the years using UNIX or UNIX-like operating
systems, configuring X has always failed for me which is a lack of my
understanding I believe. If it is already configured by my distro (in this
case, EndeavourOS) then it works the way it should. I have been trying to
install vanilla Arch Linux and the DE part never seems to work unless you use
KDE or Gnome and those DEs seem to use another method for configuring the X11
server (may be ignorant here).
Anyhow, I would like to learn how to configure X in a step by step granular
level tutorial. I learn best visually, but can follow a well written guide
that would do a lot of hand holding. I think that this hole in my knowledge
being filled is paramount to my ability to realize my own use cases for Linux
or BSD. Mainly, my focus in my years was on the server environment and
recently (last year) it shifted to a desktop environment focus.
If someone can help here or point out a good such tutorial, that would
appreciated! I especially want to experience setting X up with nothing
configured. Example, how to what info needs to be gathered on my system and
WHERE that information is put (config files) both on Arch and BSD.
Thank you in advance for help. While not a noob to Linux or UNIX, very much
one on X11.
Regards,
Michael Needham
Hi,
on modern systems, Xorg should start out of the box with no
explicit configuration needed, except maybe setting the
window manager you would like to use. But graphics output
and input devices should be detected on the fly, provided
you are using Kernel Modesetting (KMS).
E.g. on FreeBSD something like this should do the trick:
pkg install xorg
pkg install windowmaker # or any other window manager
startx
For details, consult the excellent FreeBSD Handbook.
