Re: question about fluxbox & xserver

From: Kevin Kinsey (kdk_at_daleco.biz)
Date: 05/27/04

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To: Ron Ganzer <ganzman@ganzman.no-ip.org>

    Ron Ganzer wrote:

    >
    > hi all ,
    > i have FBSD 5.1 running for 4 month and it great.....
    >
    > HOWEVER i have two problems:
    >
    > 1) gnome works perfectly but when i try to run fluxbox i get
    > XF86CONFIG doesnt have $display...... im at a loss here , any leads
    > greatly apreciated.
    >

    Hi! Please direct technical questions to questions@freebsd.org.

    1] Set an environment variable --- in csh/tcsh it's "setenv DISPLAY num",
    where "num" is the display to connect to. Here's mine ...

    <kadmin@archangel> [/home/kadmin/scripts][21:45]
    % echo $DISPLAY
    :0.0

    >
    > 2) i need to run an Xserver without a desktop manager - how ?
    >
    > thanks ,
    > Ron Ganzer

    I assume you'd enter "startx" after setting ~/.xinitrc properly.
    Google about for sample .xinitrc files --- you can call apps w/o
    calling a window manager; that's what I'm assuming you want
    to do <?>

    Kevin Kinsey
    DaleCo, S.P.
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