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Lane wrote:

>
>welcome!
>
>There is nothing wrong, I think.  It sounds as if you have properly installed 
>X.  But X isn't the friendliest desktop around, as you've seen.
>
>You should be able to get a full-featured desktop by issuing the following 
>commands:
>
>cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3
>make all install clean
>login andrei (or some NON-ROOT user)
>startx
>

The only problem with that (correct me if I am wrong) is that kde will 
take a *very* long time to build and install from the port ....