From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 9:30:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.87.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6252A37BCBF for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:30:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fosburgh@flash.net) Received: from jefnt (jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu [143.111.64.202]) by mail.mdanderson.org (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA10368; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:26:26 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <028d01bff330$e34df4e0$ca406f8f@mdacc.tmc.edu> From: "Jonathan Fosburgh" To: , References: <856532CB07BED3118FE300204840E28A01107615@vexwncc02.hurlburt.af.mil> Subject: Re: startup Kde?? Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:29:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: RE: startup Kde?? > I've followed these instructions and yet, my system is still not working. I > still need to type startx to get KDE up. Any ideas? I've read the handbook, > but was unable to find any specific instructions on how to setup my system > to automatically load KDE on bootup. > > Mark > No matter what system you use (although there is some stuff going on at Red Hat that may change this), you have to type startx in order to run KDE or GNOME or whatever, unless you are using a display manager to manage your desktop logins. But even if you use kdm (KDE's desktop manager) you still have to have an exec startkde line, or something to that effect, in your .xsession file. So what exactly are you wanting to do? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message