From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 19:35:27 2004 Return-Path: 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 314F116A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:35:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE08143D39 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:35:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:35:53 -0600 Message-ID: <4053D2FC.7060804@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 21:35:24 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marwan Sultan References: <20040314025517.M7627@kifco.net> In-Reply-To: <20040314025517.M7627@kifco.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Mar 2004 03:35:53.0796 (UTC) FILETIME=[742A2840:01C40975] cc: FreeBSD questions List Subject: Re: After xwindow is up. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:35:27 -0000 Marwan Sultan wrote: >Hello everyone, > > Im new to Xwindow system, im using Kde, with FBSD-5.1R > > Installation of xserver and kde, everything went fine, and works great > I had few small troubles, I would appreciate if someone could give me > some notices/hints what I should do, or install after this point. > > Just now the installation finished, i checked few webpages, > and few doesnt work, > > Flash / Java not supported? If yes How to do so and enable it? > Other languages? how to enable it? Turkish/Arabic? > > What browser are you using? This is a browser-specific issue. I can say that it's likely that Flash and Java are supported if Flash and/or Java haven't been installed and configured on your machine.... > > When everything done, I could go to my KDE window from root access. > but when I use my user access, it doesnt go to KDE, and just comes back > to the xwindow (the small 3 terminal windows). > Should I do something to enable it? > > > Probably you have "exec twm" in your startup files ....how are you starting X in the first place? If you are using "startx" from the commandline, then you should *probably* add an "exec kde" (or kde-session or whatever the real name is ... I use Gnome) to your ~/.xinitrc, and comment out whatever line is actually calling the other windowmanager.... It is also possible to configure the machine to run xdm/gdm/kdm (K display manager) from /etc/ttys or as a daemon.... > Any Advises after this stage? > > Thank you very much. > >-- >Marwan Sultan > > HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.