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From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
To: James <effdefender@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Getting KDE to work
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 13:42:15 -0400
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On Sunday 30 June 2002 01:35 pm, James wrote:
> I'm new to FreeBSD (thought I have basic experience using Solaris, I'm
> pretty new to UNIX).  Thank you everyone for your help so far.
> I had a lot of trouble getting KDE to work, but I finally did a "make
> install clean" on KDE3.  It successfully installed.  I've installed XFr=
ee86
> version 4.2.  I can't seem to get KDE to run.
>=20
> I type:  #startkde
> and it then spits back:

I am assuming that you want to start kde when X starts?  You want edit th=
e=20
=2Exinitrc file in your home directory and put in:
exec startkde

then you can just type at the # prompt:
startx


>=20
> xsetroot:  unable to open display ''
> xset:  unable to open display ""
> ksplash:  cannot connect to X server
> kdeinit:  Aborting.  $DISPLAY is not set.
> ksmserver:  cannot connect to X server
> Warning:  connect() failed: : No such file or directory
> Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
>=20
>=20
> My guess is that I need to set the display somehow (though I could be
> wrong).  How would I do this?  I've run through the /stand/sysinstall
> installation for XFree86 3 times.
>=20
> I checked XF86Config to make sure it was there and looked reasonable (t=
hough
> I could only guess at that).  It has a section "ServerLayout" where the
> Screen field is:
> Screen    0    "Screen0" 0 0
>=20
> It looks like extra 0s, but I don't know for sure.  Could this be the
> problem?
>=20
> Thanks in advance!
> -James Turnbull
>=20
>=20
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>=20
>=20

--=20
Anish Mistry


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