From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 15:55:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8051237B5B0 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08845; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:55:04 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <394EA4C8.A351A729@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:55:04 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chirag Kantharia , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kde References: <00dc01bfd9ed$d13c9bf0$a8ab30cf@ferret> <394E1AB8.14E5E8E8@i-clue.de> <20000619231342.A21843@slashetc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chirag Kantharia wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:06:00PM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote: > | Robert wrote: > | > Is there an tutorial on getting KDE to run on FreeBSD? > | Install from the ports. Worked flawlessly for me, including kdm. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Are you starting kdm from /etc/ttys? If so, could you list the entry? > My /etc/ttys looks like this and kdm cribs about extra argument ttyv4 > and exits: > > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure Hi Chirag, you almost got it. It has to be: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure So init will start your kdm. If you prefer the original line using xdm, you have to alter /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession I did there # exec xsm # PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin /usr/local/bin/startkde The path was set already somewhere else, so I commented it out. Maybe it is necessary for you. If you just want startx to launch kde from the command line, you have to alter /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc I did there #twm & #xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 & #xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 & #xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 & #exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login exec /usr/local/bin/startkde BTW, I like the port of KDE being installed under /usr/local/bin compared to many Linux-Installations under /opt. You always have to care for paths there. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message