On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 09:27:39PM +0000, Clay Daniels wrote: > I like the new NetBSD 9.0. It works great at the command line level, and > this is where I am writing this email using alpine. But I have yet to get > the X server to work. I've been trying to use the twm window manager which I > installed with pkgsrc, and have made multiple attempts at creating an > .xinitrc file that works. So I could use some help. >
Why do you use twm from pkgsrc? There is native X11 on NetBSD and twm(1) is there. Have you simply installed the X sets and tried from that? Then start with the smallest ~/.xinitrc (it's important to set the LC_CTYPE for twm(1) because there is some utf-8 nightmare if you do not): xterm -bg black -fg white -geometry +1+1 -ls& LC_CTYPE=en_US twm HTH, -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.sbfa.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C