Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Evans Durandisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this kind of graphic environment? or something missing in the installation. Try looking at the Handbook section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html ___

Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-11-01 17:18, Evans Durandisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer engineering. I wanted to install freeBSD since there's such a fuss about it. I got the iso images and mounted them on a CD with Alcohol 120. I don't know what Alcohol 120

About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-01 Thread Evans Durandisse
I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer engineering. I wanted to install freeBSD since there's such a fuss about it. I got the iso images and mounted them on a CD with Alcohol 120. I installed freebsd without much configuration. I answered 'no' when asked to configure things

Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-01 Thread Sherry Zhang
On 11/2/06, Evans Durandisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer engineering. I wanted to install freeBSD since there's such a fuss about it. I got the iso images and mounted them on a CD with Alcohol 120. I installed freebsd without much

Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-01 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:18:05 -0800 (PST) Evans Durandisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer engineering. I wanted to install freeBSD since there's such a fuss about it. I got the iso images and mounted them on a CD with Alcohol 120. I installed

Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I logged in and typed 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!). Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand shells. That's all I can see! No taskbars! No background picture (greying grinded dots: like

Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I logged in and typed 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!). Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand shells. That's all I can see! No taskbars! No background picture

Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-01 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:43:49 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I logged in and typed 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!). Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand shells.