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To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting kdm to use kde instead of twm
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Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> I installed X and tried it out with xdm, seems to work okay although it wasn't
> very pretty.  So I installed KDE according to the instructions in the online
> handbook.  That went okay and it starts up fine, but I do notice that it put the
> stuff in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/X11R6/.  That I fixed (I think).
> However, when I try to use kdm, it starts twm instead of kde.  What do I have to
> change to get a pure KDE environment out of kdm?  The kdm login itself looks
> like KDE, but after I log in, I get the twm environment instead of the KDE
> environment.


You really should have used the ports and let the port Makefiles do 
their job.


You also need something like

coral# cat .xinitrc
exec startkde

I manually startx because I want a command line first and only go to a 
gui when I need it.

Kent


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