synack
July 15th, 2010, 10:52
Hi everyone,
I am having some problems with windowmaker. I am running FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE (STABLE) and I have xorg-7.5 installed.
When I first installed everything I just used startx to start WindowMaker. But because The fonts suck I had to add truetype fonts and needed xorg.conf. So I followed the instructions in the handbook to configure X. Everything was going well and Xorg worked for root and for my normal login. but when I created .xinitrc, with the following
exec wmaker
and then ran startx I would just get a black screen with a mouse. Now everything was working fine before I used the Xorg configuration instructions and I'd kinda like to get my desktop back. IF there is anywhere I should be looking for more information please let me know.
cheers,
Brett.
I am having some problems with windowmaker. I am running FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE (STABLE) and I have xorg-7.5 installed.
When I first installed everything I just used startx to start WindowMaker. But because The fonts suck I had to add truetype fonts and needed xorg.conf. So I followed the instructions in the handbook to configure X. Everything was going well and Xorg worked for root and for my normal login. but when I created .xinitrc, with the following
exec wmaker
and then ran startx I would just get a black screen with a mouse. Now everything was working fine before I used the Xorg configuration instructions and I'd kinda like to get my desktop back. IF there is anywhere I should be looking for more information please let me know.
cheers,
Brett.