Hi there,

I am a new FreeBSD. I am entirely new to tihs OS, I just have good dos/windows skills. So I am comparing everything with dos/windows.

I have installed FreeBSD with default settings. When FreeBSD starts, the GUI (if there is any ?!?!?) doesn't start; just the command line. So thats no problem, because I liked the old MS-Dos 5.0 version, where the command prompt started and we wrote Win to execute the GUI.

But my problem is to determine, if the GUI is installed on the OS. For example in Windows there is a Add/Remove Programs section, where I can get all installed programms. Is there any way of getting the installed programms in FreeBSD ??

Because of I don't know if there is any installed GUI, I started sysinstall and installed a programm named X. I think this is the GUI in FreeBSD. After that, I found a programm names X in a directory, but I don't know if it was there before I installed the GUI manually.

If I start X, a GUI like application starts but there is nothing on screen. I saw in solaris that a popup window appeared if the user right-clicks the desktop. But in X nothing happens. There is no popup, no taskbar, no window, nothing. I even couldn't exit the GUI. I had to restart my computer.

Have I to install any additional application to X to be able to use the GUI.

Thanks a lot for your help.
Bye!