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From: "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net>
To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
Subject: Re: Can't get KDE up.
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 21:53:45 -0600
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On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:19:59 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 10:01:54 -0600
> "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm running FBSD 10.0, Xorg 7.7_1, and kde 4.14.2. 
> > Contents of ~/.xinitrc:  exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde
> > 
> if the other hint did not solve the problem, try to install a small
> window manager like blackbox to start from there.
> 
> startkde is now part of /usr/local/bin.
> 
> Erich

And that was it - changed .xinitrc to reference /usr/local/bin/startkde

and voila - started right up. 

Thanks,
GTene

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