Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:57:54 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting kdm to use kde instead of twm Message-ID: <3BF029C2.7060306@owt.com> References: <010b01c16b76$a4b67b20$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I installed X and tried it out with xdm, seems to work okay although it wasn't > very pretty. So I installed KDE according to the instructions in the online > handbook. That went okay and it starts up fine, but I do notice that it put the > stuff in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/X11R6/. That I fixed (I think). > However, when I try to use kdm, it starts twm instead of kde. What do I have to > change to get a pure KDE environment out of kdm? The kdm login itself looks > like KDE, but after I log in, I get the twm environment instead of the KDE > environment. You really should have used the ports and let the port Makefiles do their job. You also need something like coral# cat .xinitrc exec startkde I manually startx because I want a command line first and only go to a gui when I need it. Kent > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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