From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 25 04:43:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5274A16A420 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:43:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC69543D46 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:43:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from alpha.home (ppp128-29.lns2.adl2.internode.on.net [59.167.128.29]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1P4hQI2048240; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:13:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) From: Malcolm Kay Organization: at home To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:13:25 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <43FF8EBD.1050509@nac.net> In-Reply-To: <43FF8EBD.1050509@nac.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602251513.25534.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: Wendell Anderson Subject: Re: configuring KDE on FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:43:29 -0000 On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:24 am, Wendell Anderson wrote: > I have successfully installed FreeBSD 6.0 with X.org and > KDE 3.4.3. > > When I execute "startx" the "tcm" windowing system, starts > up fine. However when I try starting KDE, I get x-server > errors. Do you mean tcm or twm? > > I need help in configuring KDE to proper operation. How are you trying to start KDE? Do you want to boot into a graphical login screen or start KDE from the command line. To start from the command line you need to replace the window manager line in ~/.xinitrc with: startkde or if you don't have ~/.xinitrc creating it with that line. Now: % startx should start up KDE To start a graphical X windows login at boot up the easiest is to change 'off' to 'on' in the line: ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure which starts the standard xdm display manager and login interface. With this you'll need to inform xdm which windows-manager/desktop to use bye creating a file ~/.xsession containing say: #!/bin/sh startkde You should make this file executable (chmod +x .xsession). % man xdm will explain. Both .xinitrc and .xsession can be used to also perform some customisation eg setting PATH, setting modmap, etc. KDE also offers a kde specific replacement for xdm but this to me seems the wrong way to go. Other users may want to run a different windows-manager/desktop which they can easily do using their own .xsession file with xdm. Besides xdm has standard unix style documentation (man page) which seems to be frowned upon by the kde organisation. For sure once it is up KDE offers some browser based help which explains what you would have probably guessed anyway but stops short of answering any difficult questions. Malcolm > > Wendell Anderson > wanderson@nac.net > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"