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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
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On Monday 07 February 2005 08:33 am, Marshall Kiam-Laine wrote:
> ***hi all, rookie fiddler calling :)
>
>    just loaded fbsd5.3amd64 but it stopped at the login prompt.
>
>    (1) $>startkde didnt work, is that the right command please ?
>
>    (2) what command to start gnome ?
>
>    (3) how to tell it to start one of the GUI automatically ?
>
>    many thanks,   kamanism@ntlworld.com
>
The documentation at the link below should help:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould