Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:21:36 +0100 From: Armin Pirkovitsch <a.pirko@inode.at> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome Message-ID: <45E43E70.9090304@inode.at> In-Reply-To: <218603.24972.qm@web35203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <218603.24972.qm@web35203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Jonathan Chen, > > Tks for your advice. > > >> 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" > > Your advice worked here starting KDE. > > What I'm trying to do is running; > > $ startkde > will start K desktop > > $ gnome-session > will start Gnome desktop This won't work since those are just the windowmanagers - you need an X server to start them. However you could solve it with some small scripts: start-gnome.sh: ---------------- #!/bin/sh rm -f ~/.xinitrc ln -s ~/.xinitrc_gnome ~/.xinitrc startx ---------------- ################ .xinitrc_gnome: ---------------- #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session ---------------- ################ start-kde.sh: ---------------- #!/bin/sh rm -f ~/.xinitrc ln -s ~/.xinitrc_kde ~/.xinitrc startx ---------------- ################ .xinitrc_gnome: ---------------- #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/startkde ---------------- make sure all of these files are executable (chmod 755 <file>) the .xinitrc* files have to be in your home directory - start-gnome.sh and start-kde.sh in any directory in your PATH (eg. ~/bin if it's only for one user) -- Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko@inode.at
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