[buug] Window Manager missing

Jon McClintock jammer at weak.org
Wed Dec 1 14:51:33 PST 2004


On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:00:28PM -1000, webmaster at hawaiidakine.com wrote:
> I am trying out FreeBSD 5.3 on an box which seems to run fine except 
> that the X does not load the screen for ( xfce ) the window manager I 
> use on all my FreeBSD 4.x boxes.
> 
> init files seem to be there, but I just get a black screen with a mouse 
> arrow and a left click brings up a small window with selections 
> including a way to quit.
> 
> Anybody have this or a similar problem installing X windows on FreeBSD 5.3.

Sounds like it's starting up a different window manager (maybe TWM?)
than the one you're expecting...

-Jon



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