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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: How to start KDE?
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Tilman Linneweh <arved@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> * Laszlo Antal [Mi, 11 Aug 2004 at 20:22 GMT]:
> > Everything was going fine until the book telling me to CREATE A FILE
> > " .xinitrc " in my home directory.
> > Well, How can I do that?? and why do I need it?
> 
> echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc
> 
> > I installed only KDE so would it work if I will only type " startx" ??
> 
> No, the default windowmanager is twm, which is installed with X

Note that if you installed KDE through sysinstall it will have did this
for you.  Have you tried "startx" to see which WM starts up?  Have you
checked to see if a .xinitrc file already exists?

ee .xinitrc

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