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Operating Systems BSD Installing GUI Post 72676 by koraykazgan on Monday 23rd of May 2005 11:33:35 AM
Old 05-23-2005
Installing GUI
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!
 

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m17ngui

GUI 
API(3m17n)							 The m17n Library						    GUI API(3m17n)

NAME

       GUI_API - API provided by libm17n-gui.so.

   Modules
       Frame

       A frame is an object corresponding to the graphic device.
   Font

       Font object.
   Fontset

       A fontset is an object that maps a character to fonts.
   Face

       A face is an object to control appearance of M-text.
   Drawing

       Drawing M-texts on a window.
   Input Method (GUI)

       Input method support on window systems.

Detailed Description
       API provided by libm17n-gui.so.

       GUI support for a window system.

       This section defines the m17n GUI API concerning M-text drawing and inputting under a window system.

       All the definitions here are independent of window systems. An actual library file, however, can depend on a specific window system. For
       instance, the library file m17n-X.so is an example of implementation of the m17n GUI API for the X Window System.

       Actually the GUI API is mainly for toolkit libraries or to implement XOM, not for direct use from application programs.

Author
       Generated automatically by Doxygen for The m17n Library from the source code.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
       Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.

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