From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 10:41:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6459E37B400 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:41:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEB4443E1A for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from xeon@gmx.ch) Received: (qmail 10253 invoked by uid 0); 30 Jun 2002 17:41:45 -0000 Received: from 29.189.202.62.dial.bluewin.ch (HELO eraser) (62.202.189.29) by mail.gmx.net (mp016-rz3) with SMTP; 30 Jun 2002 17:41:45 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:41:50 +0200 From: Xeon To: "James" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Getting KDE to work Message-Id: <20020630194150.7196c1b7.xeon@gmx.ch> In-Reply-To: <000f01c2205c$82adbf20$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> References: <000f01c2205c$82adbf20$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 you have to put startkde into a file called .xinitrc, which is located in your home directory. then you can start X-server by typing startx. But you need to configure X first, have a look into the handbook to see how. Chris On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:35:21 -0700 "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 XFree86 > version 4.2. I can't seem to get KDE to run. > > I type: #startkde > and it then spits back: > > 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! > > > 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. > > I checked XF86Config to make sure it was there and looked reasonable (though > I could only guess at that). It has a section "ServerLayout" where the > Screen field is: > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > > It looks like extra 0s, but I don't know for sure. Could this be the > problem? > > Thanks in advance! > -James Turnbull > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message