From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 5 20: 0:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bedroom1.vagner.com (vsat-148-63-135-179.c2.sb4.mrt.starband.net [148.63.135.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9148B37B432 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:00:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (thunderbird.vagner.com [192.168.0.4]) by bedroom1.vagner.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g1642Qf00162; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:02:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Message-Id: <200202060402.g1642Qf00162@bedroom1.vagner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: george To: Colin Harford , Subject: Re: Starting KDE Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:01:45 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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