From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 18:24:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7046137B681 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.67]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.7) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:34:24 -0800 Message-ID: <38E2BB2A.CE88884B@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:25:46 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline Cc: lawrence.hy.cheung@philips.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE or other wm setup please? References: <0056920005349180000002L202*@MHS> <20000329164724.A12517@athena.sea.tera.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Kline wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 08:35:36AM +0800, lawrence.hy.cheung@philips.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Very simple, > > > > 1) Install KDE from ports > > > > # cd /usr/ports/x11/kde > > # make > > # make install > > > > 2) Edit your .xsession point to kde > > > > # vi ~/.xsession > > > > [ Replace the ctwm line with following statement ] > > > > /usr/local/bin/startkde > > > > 3) To replace xdm with kdm > > > > # su root > > # vi /etc/tty > > > > [ Replace the path of xdm with the path of kdm ] > > > > I typically exec xdm as root rather than have the line > in /etc/ttys, so I'm assuming that the same tactic will > work with kdm.... I use startx instead. That works my way just fine. I also like KDE and just figured out how to make kscd play an audio CDROM. Kent > > thanks much, > > gary > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message