About X-windows
After I started my x-windows, there is just a mesh-like stuff on the screen.And it will also displays several terminals.However, I can't see start menu and anything else. I installed my BSD under Vmware.And my displayer adapter is Mobility Radeon 7500.My laptop is IBM T40.I want to know is this because of the driver of the display adapter or anything else. How to solve this problem. Thanks! - Do You Yahoo!? 150MP3 1G1000 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About X-windows
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:25:42AM +0800, ?c6?dc ?d5?c5 wrote: After I started my x-windows, there is just a mesh-like stuff on the screen.And it will also displays several terminals.However, I can't see start menu and anything else. I installed my BSD under Vmware.And my displayer adapter is Mobility Radeon 7500.My laptop is IBM T40.I want to know is this because of the driver of the display adapter or anything else. How to solve this problem. Congratulations. You've got the X server running, which is most of the battle. What you need to do now is install a window manager or a desktop environment, which will give you all of the icons and menus and stuff you expect. See http://www.xwinman.org/ for a site that reviews most of the available ones: pretty much all of them should be available from ports -- just install the one you want, and follow the instructions in the documentation for getting it to start up automatically when you start up an X session. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp1WB2yaXuSl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About X-windows
ÿc6ÿdc ÿd5ÿc5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After I started my x-windows, there is just a mesh-like stuff on the screen.And it will also displays several terminals.However, I can't see start menu and anything else. I installed my BSD under Vmware.And my displayer adapter is Mobility Radeon 7500.My laptop is IBM T40.I want to know is this because of the driver of the display adapter or anything else. How to solve this problem. Please wrap your lines around 72 characters, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html X is fine, you are using a minimal display manager, which doesn't have all the fancy features you are looking for. See this section of the handbook for more information: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html But what makes you think you'll get a start menu in any case? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Questions about x-windows, startx (Extremely long and probablymost blahblah)
I have managed to get everything up and running now, including my NVIDIA card with tv-out on my FreeBSD 5.1. THANKS FOLKS. Now come the fun part, I have managed to, in .xinitrc have a specific program running when I run startx. That's lovely. Now I would like to start and close additional programs, aswell as maximize, bring to front and back etc. BUT FROM OUTSIDE THE X ENVIRONMENT. Why? You ask. Let me tell you the story of my life :-) [BACKGROUND] I have a freeBSD running as a file, web and servcice server. It is located in a closet and there's no such thing as keyboard or monitor attached to it. It is however connected (since a few days back) to a TV-set. In the same room as the TV is also a small device called SLIMP3 located. (www.slimp3.com) along other thing this device sends all IR-signals flooding the room to the server. At the server I can do whatever I want with the signal. So I have created an ImageViewer application written in JAVA. It's controlled by different HTML-requests (http://server/ail?next, http://server/ail?prev etc) and those requests comes from the service that serves the SLIMP3 device. All above is still in alpha stage but it's working great so far. [END BACKGROUND] Now to my problems: I would like to start/stop different programs (such as the java-program mentioned above). I would also like to have many programs running, but only see one at a time (bring to front, maximize). I understand this is certainly not a yes/no question, but if someone can hint me on a window manager that's accessible from outside X, or some other remote controlled software that might be of interest I would be glad. Finally, I will ofcourse post all sources as soon as I have commented them, and, perhaps, made them a bit more general than they are today, please feel free to contact me for further details. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Questions about x-windows, startx (Extremely long and probablymost blahblah)
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Joachim Dagerot thusly... I would like to start/stop different programs (such as the java-program mentioned above). Scan ps(1) output. Then perform appropriate action based on that. I would also like to have many programs running, but only see one at a time (bring to front, maximize). I use fvwm-devel (port), so my rest of the reply is based on that. And i think that fvwm could be of help. The Big Idea is... - Spawn FvwmCommand once from fvwm. - Afterwords you can use FvwmCommand to fire fvwm related commands from a shell script or console. ...For details, see... http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/manpages/unstable/FvwmCommand.php http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/manpages/unstable/fvwm.php http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/manpages/ http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/faq/ http://www.fvwm.org/ ...FVWM is highly configurable, so don't let the fvwm(1) man page overwhelm you. If you encounter problems w/ fvwm, consult the mailing lists... http://www.fvwm.org/contact/ - Parv -- A programmer, budding Unix system administrator, and amateur photographer ISO employment... http://www103.pair.com/parv/work/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About X windows
I've purchased the freebsd 4.7 stable at my local JR computer store. After installing and configuring X server I selected KDE as my default desktop. As root, I typed startx and KDE started up fine. But, when I login as a different user and I type startx, I don't get the KDE desktop. I get a plain X window desktop (i.e three windows and a clock ) How can I fix this problem. I appreciate your help. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: About X windows
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:26:38 -0500 david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As root, I typed startx and KDE started up fine. But, when I login as a different user and I type startx, I don't get the KDE desktop. I get a plain X window desktop (i.e three windows and a clock ) How can I fix this problem. I appreciate your help. Thanks Create a .xinitrc file in that user's home dir with the following: exec startkde That should do it. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk Of course it runs NetBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
