From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 29 17:19:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D08B1106567E for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E5B8FC23 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 7931 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2009 17:19:13 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Jul 2009 17:19:13 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id E42FE5083C; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:19:11 -0400 (EDT) To: thanos trompoukis References: <4463dcg86r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <441vo0o9ap.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <44ocr3a8zq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:19:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (thanos trompoukis's message of "Wed\, 29 Jul 2009 18\:24\:14 +0300") Message-ID: <44bpn39zlc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with startx..! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:19:15 -0000 thanos trompoukis writes: > It seems to be like an other desktop environment very simple. > Now when I try startx I can see the same background I could see before > but now there are 3 windows (x-term) like the console window on KDE 3.5 > > Why KDE not starts? Almost certainly because you didn't set it up to do so. Please read the documentation. E.g., http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/