On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 02:38:36PM -0700, Steven Soria wrote: > I installed FreeBSD and everything but now this thing called Xterm comes up. What do > i do in this wndow?
xterm(1) is the standard terminal emulator provided by X Windows. It
gives you access to the Unix shell prompt. Sounds like you've managed
to bring up the default xinit(1) setup which gives you just a bare
xterm(1) -- which means you're starting X windows by using startx each
time you log in, rather than running xdm(1) and using the graphical
login. Try running some X Windows programs. xeyes(1) is vaguely
amusing the first time you run it:
% xeyes &
and it will probably help you to run a windowmanager:
% twm &
(twm is not everybodies' idea of the greatest windowmanager ever, but
it does the job, and it is useful in this situation as it comes by
default with the basic X Windows installation.)
Once you get bored, just type 'exit' in the original xterm window, and
X will close down putting you back at the console prompt.
Probably what you want to do after that is configure yourself a nicely
customised ~/.xinitrc file: the first step should be to install and
run some sort of decent window manager -- there's several in the
x11-wm category in the ports. I like windowmaker myself. Or you can
go the whole hog and install the Gnome desktop or the KDE desktop --
either of which will require you to download quite a lot of stuff, and
spend hours watching it compile if that's the way you choose to do
things.
Cheers,
Matthew
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