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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 2019 11:26:55 -0500
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to get kde5 to run
Message-ID:  <20191210112655.00002f3d@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <16652873.sFgvYJuXru@kowalczt.ddns.net>
References:  <20191210102526.00003d12@seibercom.net> <16652873.sFgvYJuXru@kowalczt.ddns.net>

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On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:08:44 +0100, Tomasz Kowalczyk commented:
>On wtorek, 10 grudnia 2019 16:25:26 CET Jerry wrote:
>> FreeBSD 11.3
>> 
>> After failing to get kde5 to run with the build in Intel video chip,
>> I installed an nVidia card, with the driver, etcetera.
>> Unfortunately, kde
>>....
>> ....
>> And this is the ~/.xinitrc file:
>> 
>> exec ck-launch-session startkde  
>
>I hit the same issue few days ago. (I wasnt using my FreeBSD
>instalation for some time tho).
>Looks like some files changed and now i can only run kde from console
>by changing that line to:
>
>exec ck-launch-session startplasma-x11 > ~/.xsession-errors 2>&1
>
>Ofc u dont need to collect console output, but sometimes its usefull.

Thanks, that did it. I don't know why it isn't stated somewhere though.
I wasted three days on this. I even purchased a new video card because
I thought it would not support my build-in intel video chip.

-- 
Jerry



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