From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 21: 6:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.davidv.net (ns1.davidv.net [205.241.169.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028CB37B742 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@davidv.net) Received: from devnull (david@devnull [205.241.169.122]) by ns1.davidv.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA95934; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:10:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david@davidv.net) Message-Id: <200007010410.XAA95934@ns1.davidv.net> X-Sender: david@mail.davidv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:06:00 -0500 To: "Mark A Mucha" , From: David Vondrasek Subject: Re: how do I start KDE? In-Reply-To: <006501bfe310$7eb4c020$e4eb5f18@crocbyte> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:57 PM 6/30/00 -0400, Mark A Mucha wrote:=20 > > I can't figure it out.=A0 I do startx and I was expecting the KDE to pop= up > like it does in windows :O) > =A0 > and it didn't > =A0 > Thanks > MArk < Please tuen off HTML> Look in ~/ < home> and see if you have a .xinitrc file. If you do make put this in the file #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $ userresources=3D$HOME/.Xresources usermodmap=3D$HOME/.Xmodmap sysresources=3D/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources sysmodmap=3D/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap # start some nice programs rxvt -bg black -fg white -fn vga & xset s off startkde <-------------------- starts KDE If you do not have a .xinitrc, you cam copy the system one from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to you home as .xinitrc and edit it as above. Remove any ther WM starting in the file such as xdm. Then your start as you were with ' startx ' David Vondrasek http://www.davidv.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message