From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 19 21:39:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13E337B404 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:39:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip3.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A0899F79011E; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:39:21 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:15:16 -0800 From: Chip Wiegand To: Keshav Tadimeti Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change X window manager Message-Id: <20020319231516.2fc47643.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <3C92C7FC.4FF34E07@yahoo.co.uk> References: <3C92C7FC.4FF34E07@yahoo.co.uk> Organization: Homenet X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, it looks like Keshav Tadimeti opened his big mouth again, on Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:50:12 +0530, and spouted out this: > hello all, > After creating a user account, and subsequently logging in, I find > that that usser's windowmanager is TVWM. I want to change it to KDE. > How can I do so? > Any help is appreciated. > > With regards First install kde - cd /usr/ports/x11/kde2 pkg_add -r kde2 or make install clean Then edit ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession to load kde instead of tvwm. the last line should read exec startkde Hope that helps, Regards, -- Chip W www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message