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From: Michael W.Holdeman <ptfd9100@beanstalk.net>
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To: Justin L Boss <jlboss@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Logins, KDM.......
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:04:05 -0500
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I know I had an .xsession. Does it need to be in home?

Mike


On Tuesday 12 March 2002 17:25, you wrote:
> you did the right thing using using kdm. when you got to login you need
> to select kde from the log menu. if you wont to use the default then you
> need to add a .xsession with 'exec startkde'
>
> Michael W.Holdeman wrote:
> > Using the instructions in the handbook I installed FreeBSD 4.5 on my
> > laptop top play with it.
> > My problems are this.
> > My screen comes up to a login. I can login as root and then enter startx,
> > and get KDE. If I logon as user and enter startx I get a message about
> > needing to be root.
> > I also always get a message for xauth refering to bad display name ":0"
> > in remove command.
> > If I tweek the tty's file (ttyv8  "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon"  xterm  
> > on secure) I can geet kdm to come up at boot but cannot login, always
> > comes back up kdm again.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
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