Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:27:03 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome Message-ID: <20070227082702.GA14401@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <224548.80276.qm@web35206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <224548.80276.qm@web35206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:26:41PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> FreeBSD-6.2-amd64
>
> This is a test, I insalled aprox >80% of the packages on Disc 2
> After installation completed PC rebooted to runlevel 3. Login as user
> and run;
>
> $ startkde
> warning:
> Kpersonalizer : Cannot connect to Xserer
> - repeated-
>
> $ gnome-session
> (gnome-session 1968) gtk-Warning ** cannot open displayed
>
> $ startx
> 3 xterm windows started. On xterm I can start KDE with a lot of
> warning displayed on xterm windonw. But I can't start Gnome on xterm.
>
If you're going to use "startx" you will need a ${HOME}/.xinitrc with
the following contents:
#/bin/sh
startkde
Make sure the file is 755 permissions. This will start up X with KDE.
I would suggest you configure /etc/ttys to start up KDM instead of
using "startx"
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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