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Date:      Thu, 03 Dec 1998 12:07:59 -0500
From:      "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
To:        "Tegels, Kent" <KTegels@hdrinc.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Whoa is me about KDE...
Message-ID:  <199812031710.MAA25630@laker.net>

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You direct questions of a technical nature to -question, or you'll
suffer the *wrath* of Sue ;o)

I'll cc -questions, but not -newbies...

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:22:15 -0600, Tegels, Kent wrote:

>I'm a virgin to FreeBSD 2.2.7 trying to get KDE to work. I built a
>developers distribution with full X. I can get just about everything to
>work, but when I do "startkde," it responds by saving that an X server can
>be connected to.

I installed X windows about three months ago and have been using fvwm95
since then, until yesterday.  Yesterday I began installing several
window managers, including KDE. KDE is way cool. To start KDE, I
created a .xinitrc in my home directory. Then I invoke "startx". startx
starts the X server, reads the .xinitrc, and launches KDE. Is this how
you're doinf it??  I don't use XDM, because I created UIDs for each
window manager, so I could just login and invoke each one to play with
it. The XDM man page says XDM is not appropriate for multiple window
managers.

Also, once you have KDE up, you might be interested in themes,
available at http://kde.themes.org/


>In troubleshooting this it did notice complaints about qt-1.3 not being
>present while installing. However, SysInstall thinks qt-1.3 is installed on
>the system. 

When ports are installed, directories are created under /var/db/pkg. 
You can check there to see what directories begin with q*

HTH


Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes.



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