From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 4:24:38 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 863CB37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 04:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68F843E3B for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 04:24:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 07B8C4FC98; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:24:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004534A0D; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:24:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:24:32 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: MET Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up the GUI (XFree86 / KDE) In-Reply-To: <000001c2652d$9dcc49a0$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, MET wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:23:01 -0400 > From: MET > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Setting up the GUI (XFree86 / KDE) > > So I've synched my source tree to 4.x-stable and all my ports. I > installed XFree86-4.2.0 and KDE 3.0.3 (I think that's the last number), > but now what? I've only installed these options through FBSD initial > installation methods before. What do I need to do now so that I can > type startx and it loads KDE. Or even better, have KDE load on boot? > > Suggestions, links anything would be of great assistance. > > ~ Matthew > Assuming you've *built* the X and KDE ports, you can get KDE to start with startx by putting 'exec kde' in your ~/.xinitrc, vis: $ echo "exec startkde" > .xinitrc If you want a graphical login that will send you into KDE, see the (excellent) handbook page on XDM (although you'll probably want KDM): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message