--- "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Cecil Eduardo Campos Costa
> wrote:
> 
> > The nerwork and the internet is working fine, I've
> already installed the
> > mozilla and some others programs. The problem now
> is the that I
> > installed the amiwm and the icewm but i can't run
> it. In Linux I just
> > have to write startx amiw, but in netbsd it isn't
> by this way... Anyone
> > knows the solution?
> 
> It seems like startx(1) (and X in general) is the
> same for each operating
> system I have used it on. But then again, the term
> "Linux" is vague --
> maybe your specific Linux distribution had its own
> special "startx".
> 
> I know another message answered your question. Since
> your question was
> about startx, you can find some documentation about
> it by typing:
> 
>  man startx
> 
> This manual page explains how to start clients (like
> a window manager) and
> shares an example .xinitrc file.

Or you can go and read the startx command to find out
what it's really doing. All it is is a bourne shell
script.

Apparently there were days when startx didn't exist,
but those were before my unix-at-home days...

Andy

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