Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 07:24:32 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: MET <met@uberstats.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up the GUI (XFree86 / KDE) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209260722150.2979-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <000001c2652d$9dcc49a0$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, MET wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 03:23:01 -0400 > From: MET <met@uberstats.com> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Setting up the GUI (XFree86 / KDE) > > So I've synched my source tree to 4.x-stable and all my ports. I > installed XFree86-4.2.0 and KDE 3.0.3 (I think that's the last number), > but now what? I've only installed these options through FBSD initial > installation methods before. What do I need to do now so that I can > type startx and it loads KDE. Or even better, have KDE load on boot? > > Suggestions, links anything would be of great assistance. > > ~ Matthew > Assuming you've *built* the X and KDE ports, you can get KDE to start with startx by putting 'exec kde' in your ~/.xinitrc, vis: $ echo "exec startkde" > .xinitrc If you want a graphical login that will send you into KDE, see the (excellent) handbook page on XDM (although you'll probably want KDM): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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