Default window manager ? How do i get beautifil window manager

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carrarin

hey, im a newb. I just installed freebsd on my comp, im sure that during the installation, i installed both gnome and kde.

when i start up my comp, i type startx, and i get this really old looking window manager. I wanted to have something that looked more modern.

What am i doing wrong.

Any help would be appreciated
 
yeah, i read that. when i did the
make clean install part, it looked like my computer was trying to connect to some ftp servers. I don't have the internet at home. So thats kind of a problem.

Does desktopBSD have a g++ compiler.
 
carrarin said:
I don't have the internet at home. So thats kind of a problem.
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Yeah, that does present a challenge. Is an Internet connection not available where you live or does it cost too much?
 
isnt gnome on the installation cds. I thought that when i installed fbsd, i saw gnome and kde pkages installed.
 
If you do not have an .xinitrc or .xsession file, then by default you will be runing the TWM window manager, which is old and boring.

To get KDE, you need to create a .xinitrc file in your home directory. In that file, put in the following one line:

exec startkde

For GNOME, you would put in this line instead:

exec gnome-session
 
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