From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 3 09:11:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA27118 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:11:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27113 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:11:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-fll-194.laker.net [205.245.75.94]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id MAA25630; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:10:55 -0500 Message-Id: <199812031710.MAA25630@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Tegels, Kent" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 12:07:59 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Whoa is me about KDE... Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message