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 Samuel Martín Moro wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Fred Boatwright <f...@blakemfg.com> 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 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 tool. > > > > 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 have installed 8.0-RELEASE from the CD and I > > want to run olvwm for a desktop. I have been using Solaris 2.6 with the > > OpenWindows desktop for 12 years and consider it to be as close to > > perfection as one can get. I am being forced, kicking and screaming, to > > move to some other type of Unix on a PC and would like to continue using > > OpenWindows. It is probably going to be an uphill battle to get olvwm > > to work. Am I going to have to install xorg to get everything needed? > > > > Best regards, > > Fred > > > > Tim Kellers wrote: > > > > > > 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 X server isn't installed: > > > > > > Try: > > > > > > # whereis xorg > > > > > > xorg: /usr/ports/x11/xorg > > > > > > If xorg isn't installed, cd to: > > > > > > /usr/ports/x11/xorg > > > > > > and > > > > > > make config-recursive (If you add any options, run make > > > config-recursive a second time after the shell prompt returns) > > > > > > and then > > > > > > make install clean > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > Tim Kellers > > > > > > On 08/12/10 15:40, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > > > 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 /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 > > > >> /usr/ports/x11/xinit > > > >> > > > >> I' m not certain about the p5/Perl TK questions, but in the file: > > > >> /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/p5-Tk/pkg-descr > > > >> there is this description: > > > >> > > > >> This a re-port of a perl interface to Tk8.4 (John Ousterhout's > > production > > > >> release). > > > >> > > > >> Perl API is essentially the same as Tk800.025 but has not > > > >> been verified as compliant. > > > >> > > > >> It also includes all the C code parts of Tix8.1.4 from SourceForge. > > > >> The perl code corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully > > implemented. > > > >> > > > >> This version (Tk804.025) is only likely to work with perl5.8+. > > > >> > > > >> Tim Kellers > > > >> > > > >> On 08/12/10 12:02, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> Hello, > > > >>> > > > >>> 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. > > > >>> > > > >>> Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? > > > >>> > > > >>> Best regards, > > > >>> > > > >>> Fred > > > >>> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > > > 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) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"