________________________________ From: Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> To: John or Judy Hixson <johnorj...@earthlink.net>; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 8:24:23 PM Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg
--As of June 10, 2011 4:26:27 PM -0700, John or Judy Hixson is alleged to have said: > I'm having trouble getting Xorg to run on my just recently installed > FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE(i386) system. I'm trying to follow the procedures in > Sections 5.3 and 5.4 of the Handbook and can't seem to get "startx" to > fire up; I get a black screen when I try. Here's what I've done so far: --As for the rest, it is mine. Weird question: Have you installed xterm yet? Without a window manager configured, startx will try to open X with a single xterm window. (At least, as installed from ports, I believe.) I'm not sure what it would do if it couldn't find xterm, but a blank black screen sounds possible... If I'm right, Xorg is _running,_ you just haven't started any programs in it. Which you might be able to see if you ssh'd into the box. If so, you could kill Xorg and get your terminal back on your standard terminal. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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" I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different machines. When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) which is the default, no frills window manager. It should have installed with the Xorg port. If you installed via pkg_add I can't say for sure that tvw installs by default, but using the ports it will. Without a window manager, you will see nothing but a black graphics screen when you run "startx". There are loads of other windows managers and choices for desktop. I am a big believer in the KISS method and prefer not to add in all the overhead that comes with KDE or GNOME and I just use tvm. I can open any application and it looks fine, I can open several Xterm windows with it and spread them across my dual monitor setup. It just works for me but I'm sure others will toot their horns for KDE and GNOME, etc... _______________________________________________ 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"
