From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 14:18:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from exchange1.pria.com (exchange1.pria.com [12.30.33.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 957B537B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by EXCHANGE1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:19:04 -0400 Message-ID: From: "ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL" To: 'Rick Hamell' Cc: 'FreeBSD-questions' Subject: RE: How can I boot directly into KDE? Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:18:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /etc/profile (might have the exact file wrong) is read first and only once. Usually .login/.profile as your login continues. The user files, .cshrc/.shrc/.*rc depending on the shell, are read for every shell that is started unless otherwise specified. The book: Unix Shells By Example has a great set of diagrams explaining the subtle differences between c shell, borne and korn shells and what files get read when... FYI, I made an error when trying to get KDE to start as login prompt and ended up being stuk in X login screen. The secret kill keys didn't work nor could I actually log in. It was interesting and then I had to hard reboot without shutting down. That was not fun. After entering single user mode and fixing the problem along with the other things that happen when power is abruptly stopped I chose not to have a window login just to be safe. -Michael the Unix newbie -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hamell [mailto:hamellr@heorot.1nova.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:27 AM To: Mark Hummel Cc: FSD Subject: Re: How can I boot directly into KDE? > I am using KDE, but I have to run it by using the startx command. I'd > like to boot directly to KDE. I've been told that this is very > possible, but I still can't figure out the process. Well, I'd personally put startx into my .login for the primary user of KDE... I'm not sure what other problems may arise from that though. Like, is .login read every time a new shell is opened... or? Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message