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On Friday 03 June 2005 10:44 am, jose luis wrote:
> hi
> i need help.
> my english is little, then i hope that you understand me.
> well i use freebsd 5.3 i installed xorg and kde.
> i execute startkde and it appears this: kpersonalizer: can not
> connect Xserver i execute kdm  or xdm and it appear welcome freebsd
> later  i have to log the user, when i do this the screen appears
> black  and  it reappears (welcome freebsd) i execute  startx and it
> appears the xterm later i type startkde and the  desktop is up but
> there are two desktop xterm and kde and i can=B4t work. i hope that u
> understand and thank u very much.
>

Is the command 'startkde' in the .xinitrc file in your home directory? =20
If not, try adding it to the file, then execute 'startx'.

This section of the online handbook may be of help:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

Good luck,

Andrew Gould