About "how the GUI should look like after installation!"

illoai at gmail.com illoai at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 02:43:51 UTC 2006


On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss <elessar at bsdforen.de> 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 pixels in a low definition image). There're just
> > four squared box (shell).

> You need to install a window manager.

twm(1) idn't good enough for you?

evilwm
blackbox
e16 (or whatever they have changed the name too this week)
aewm

are all fairly degenerate wastes of memory.

But it will not do much good unless you
have also bothered to install browsers and such.

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