X (also called X11 or, formally, the X Window System) is the standard windowing system for most UNIX systems. It is supported by MINIX 3 and is automatically installed with the official installation images.
The NetBSD guide chapter on the X server mostly applies to MINIX 3, please refer to it for a more thorough overview.
When logged-in as root, type:
startx
You will get the default TWM environment from NetBSD. One of the xterm
windows will be called login
, you can quit X11 by closing it or using the command exit
.
If the auto-detected X server settings are not satisfactory, run the command:
X -configure
to generate a X11 configuration file named xorg.conf.new
based on the automatically detected settings. Move it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and edit it to suit your configuration.
To personalize the default environment created by startx
, copy the shell script /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
to ~/.xinitrc
and modify it.
Once X11 is sorted out, you may want to use another window manager.
The following guides from The Linux Documentation Project give useful explanations of X and its components:
For MINIX releases 3.1.4 - 3.2.0, the official X documentation can be found below:
Documentation for the X Window System Version 11 Release 6.8.2 (X11R6.8.2)