From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 19 22:53:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.is.co.za (mercury.is.co.za [196.4.160.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F7E152E0 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcs@is.co.za) Received: from hermwas.is.co.za (hermwas.is.co.za [196.23.0.8]) by mercury.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA11300; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:53:35 +0200 Received: (from marcs@localhost) by hermwas.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA24034; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:53:34 +0200 (SAT) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:53:33 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: ENOCH WU Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K desktop installation problem Message-ID: <20000120085333.J8404@is.co.za> References: <20000120064317.12382.qmail@nwcst312.netaddress.usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <20000120064317.12382.qmail@nwcst312.netaddress.usa.net> X-Operating-System: SunOS 5.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey there, put the command exec startkde in your .xinitrc file, and VIOLA. ;) KDE should start as long as you have that file. Cheers, Marc On Tue, Feb 26, 2036 at 06:11:33AM -0700, ENOCH WU wrote: > Hi - > > When I found out that the version of XFree86 on FreeBSD 2.2.7 CDROM does not > support my video card, I made a decision to grab the source of a newer > version. XFree 3.3.5 which supports my video card - SiS 5597. > > Was I glad to see TWM window manager running when I started X! > > Then I installed kbase, klib, and a whole bunch of others that looked like > part of the KDE distribution. However I could not find a way to start KDE. > > % man kde --- no man page > % man -k K desktop --- nothing appropriate > > To test it, I was able to run K programs under TWM but how do I run KDE. > Please help > > Enoch > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Marc Silver IS Hosting Infrastructure The Internet Solution Tel: (+27 11) 283 5500 Fax: (+27 11) 283 5001 E-mail: marcs@is.co.za Web: www.is.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message