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From: "Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" <Richard.Mayo@us.army.mil>
> I'm setting up a FreeBSD box for the first time, so naturally I have a bunch of 
> questions.  I'm sure these are addressed on the web somewhere, but I'm not 
> having any luck finding anything so here goes:
> 
> What file controls the way Xwindows sets up after I log on?  I got the graphical 
> login screen, but now I want to start Xwindows with kde rather than twm.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich Mayo
> 

edit /etc/ttys to point to the kde display mgr, should look something like this, mine's for gnome though.

ttyv8	"/usr/X11R6/sbin/gdm -nodaemon"	xterm	on secure

check out the handbook on this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html

regards,
Bob