From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 00:14:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA03668 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:14:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@haiti-104.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA03645 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:13:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA28691; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:13:01 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:12:56 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: jtroy@goof.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE port problems In-Reply-To: <19971215054333.599.qmail@goof.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 jtroy@goof.com wrote: > I found /usr/local/bin/kdm. I assumed this was some sort of display > manager (analagous to xdm) so I shut down XDM and started KDM. When I start > KDM I see the Accelerated X's giant X appear on my screen as I normall do when > my X server is started. However, nothing happens after that....I don't get > any sort of log in screen. The X just stays on the screen and I have to kill > the server manually to get rid of it. KDM is supposed to be a kde version of xdm, however I've heard it's fairly buggy, and I've never really needed to use it myself. > Now, I don't know if I am even following the right procedure to use > KDE by starting kdm, and I also don't know if there is anything else I need > to do to get it to work, but I would appreciate any help/advice from anyone > who has played with this port. Thanks to you in advance, I usually just use /usr/local/kde/bin/startkde (which might have ended up in /usr/local/bin if you used the port/package). Try putting that in your xinitrc instead of your usual window manager, and see how that goes. If all else fails grab the snapshots from ftp.kde.org (or one of its mirrors), and install them manually. I've had great luck with them on -current. - alex