Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:50:14 -0400 (EDT) From: <doug@safeport.com> To: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kde Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206071439340.27906-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <200206071330.04945.dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
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On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, David Syphers wrote: > On Friday 07 June 2002 12:26 pm, doug wrote: > > Chapters 5.6 and 5.7 in the hand book will give you what you need. > > > > I use xdm rather than kdm if for no other reason than I use twm to install > > and/or work on kde. You can also start [xk]dm out of /usr/local/etc/rc. > > This has the advantage of being able to stop xdm. > > The details in the Handbook cover an old version of kdm (it remarks that > things have changed in KDE 2.2, and we're now on KDE 3). If you are using xdm (and probably kdm) I doubt (rather than know ;) that htis matters. > I've tried changing "off" to "on" on the appropriate line in /etc/ttys, but I > can't start either xdm with the default line nor kdm with > "/usr/local/bin/kdm" as the command. In /var/log/xdm-errors I get > > ---- > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file > (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() This would seem to be a path error but that does not make a lot of sense to me. Below are the files I use. > Fatal server error: > no screens found > ---- > > I'm able to start kdm from the command line with no problems, so I don't see > why it should complain about a config file. Any ideas? Thanks, From the system I am currently using (so I am pretty sure it works ;) /etc/ttys: -------------- ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure $HOME/.xsession (-rwx------) -------------- /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/local/bin/startkde You do not need the /usr/bin/ssh-agent, I hate to type passwords There are a lot of ways to mix and match the ".x" files and to start the various windows managers. This has worked for me. _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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