XFree86 -- next step?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:28:13 -0700
"Jay O'Brien" <jayobrien at att.net> wrote:

> I finally have XFree86 working, at least to the point that 
> I can type "X" and get the expected grid and "X" mouse cursor.
> 
> That in itself doesn't seem very useful, but it works.
> 
> As a learning exercise, which Desktop environment should I 
> install as a first effort, and how do I run it? 
> 
> I'm referring to the FreeBSD Handbook at:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html
> Desktop Environments
> 
> I intend to install Mozilla as a browser, in case that makes 
> any difference. 
> 
> Also, what is the mechanism that interprets the "X" command to 
> run XFree86?

Well any thing in ~/.xinitrc will be started when you run startx.  If
you are using xdm it will be ~/.xsession. Man xinit for more info. :)

Here are a few fun places to start...
http://xwinman.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/x11.html
browse till you find one that fits you and then install it and try it
out. :)



BTW if you are new to X and not found it yet X -configure and xf86cfg
-textmode are your friend when creating a new config file for X :)