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From: "Tony Johnson" <gjohnson@gs.verio.net>
To: <Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil>, <fosburgh@flash.net>,
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Subject: Re: startup Kde??
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:49:44 -0500
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edit your tty's and enable tty8.  (Could be tty7 but it the one that spawns
xdm)
cd ~
vi .xsession
add exec startkde as last line

Try this.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil>
To: <fosburgh@flash.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 11:35 AM
Subject: RE: startup Kde??


> Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for the quick answer.  This is exactly what I want my system to do.
>
> 1.  Boot to a graphical login screen prompting the user for their login
> (from your answer, this would be a display manager)
>
> 2.  With a correct login, the system automatically runs KDE.
>
> Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Fosburgh [SMTP:fosburgh@flash.net]
> > Sent: Friday, 21 July, 2000 1130
> > To: Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: startup Kde??
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil>
> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 11:21 AM
> > Subject: RE: startup Kde??
> >
> >
> > > I've followed these instructions and yet, my system is still not
> > working.
> > I
> > > still need to type startx to get KDE up. Any ideas?  I've read the
> > handbook,
> > > but was unable to find any specific instructions on how to setup my
> > system
> > > to automatically load KDE on bootup.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > No matter what system you use (although there is some stuff going on at
> > Red
> > Hat that may change this), you have to type startx in order to run KDE
or
> > GNOME or whatever, unless you are using a display manager to manage your
> > desktop logins. But even if you use kdm (KDE's desktop manager) you
still
> > have to have an
> >
> > exec startkde
> >
> > line, or something to that effect, in your .xsession file. So what
exactly
> > are you wanting to do?
> >
>
>
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