Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:01:45 -0700 From: george <george@vagner.com> To: Colin Harford <colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Starting KDE Message-ID: <200202060402.g1642Qf00162@bedroom1.vagner.com> In-Reply-To: <B885D21C.3413%colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca> References: <B885D21C.3413%colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>
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edit your ~/.xinitrc and put the line startkde in it and comment out the other window manager. run "startx" to start xfree On Tuesday 05 February 2002 06:17 pm, Colin Harford wrote: > I have been using gnome with window manager for a gui, and I want to give > KDE installed. So I updated my ports tree and installed KDE from the > ports. > > What I put in startkde I get this: > > $ startkde > xsetroot: unable to open display '' > xset: unable to open display "" > ksplash: cannot connect to X server > Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. > ksmserver: cannot connect to X server > connect() failed: : No such file or directory > > > Umm, what do I do now? > > I tried putting export DISPLAY=:0 into /etc/profile but that did not seem > to help. > > Colin Harford > > > Systems and Network Administrator Apple Product Professional > ================================= > Computer and Network Support > University of Alberta Students' Union > Phone: (780) 492-4241 Fax: (780) 492-4643 > http://www.su.ualberta.ca > > > "I sense much NT in you, NT leads to Blue Screen. > Blue Screen leads to downtime, downtime leads to suffering. > NT is the path to the darkside." > - Unknown Unix Jedi > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Everything is an original.... 2 things cant exist in the same place at the same time. So copy machines only make originals. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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