From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 10:34:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2D337B401 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B1043FA3 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:2775 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19afJc-00006a-4O; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:34:44 -0700 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:21:29 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NQS44V1V; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:22:43 -0700 From: Johnson David To: greyrain77@excite.com, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:34:05 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030710172124.44D32B703@xmxpita.excite.com> In-Reply-To: <20030710172124.44D32B703@xmxpita.excite.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307101034.05193.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19afJc-00006a-4O*fhe6XjOJF8Y* X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: SPAM: 03.40: Question - startx, KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:34:47 -0000 On Thursday 10 July 2003 10:21 am, Eric B. wrote: > I have FreeBSD 5.1 installed, I know the startx command and am > familiar with using it from Mandrak-Linux. However, when I use the > startx command with FreeBSD it gives me an X-Window environment. What > file do I have to configure to have KDE start by using the startx > command and how do I configure it? KDE runs under the X Window System (XFree86). So everything is working the way it should. The only thing left is to tell the X Window System that you want to use KDE instead of the default twm. This list is not supposed to ask technical questions, so I can't give you a technical answer. But I can direct you to the FreeBSD Handbook, section 5.7.2.2, which tells you everything you need to know. The Handbook is online at and if you installed it, locally at . David