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From: "Benedikt Schmidt" <s_bschmi@ira.uka.de>
To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>,
	FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Getting kdm to use kde instead of twm
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Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
The corresponding file for xdm ist ~/.xsession. Should work with kdm
too.

-- 
Benedikt

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