From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 3 6:30:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.tetronsoftware.com (ns1.tetronsoftware.com [64.217.1.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5FC937B401 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 06:30:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from g.harris@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from ns1.tetronsoftware.com (geneh@ns1.tetronsoftware.com [64.217.1.41]) by ns1.tetronsoftware.com (8.11.3/8.11.2/check_local4.1) with SMTP id f53DVHo17420 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 08:31:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from g.harris@tetronsoftware.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gene Harris Reply-To: g.harris@tetronsoftware.com Organization: Tetron Software, LLC To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 and KDE installation >< close Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 08:31:17 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060308311701.17336@ns1.tetronsoftware.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need to setup your .Xdefaults and .xinitrc in your home directory. Here is a sample that should get you started. You can also modify the system xinitrc file if you so choose to start kde by default. .xinitrc ===================================================== xrdb -load .Xdefaults xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Meta_L' # The following line is key to getting kde to show up... startkde ===================================================== .Xdefaults ===================================================== XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^? XTerm*termName: xterm-color ===================================================== As always, your mileage may vary Gene On Sunday 03 June 2001 08:08, Dan Anderson babbled on about: > Hi, > > I recently installed a fresh 4.3 without X. I did this so I could get a > clean install of XFree86 4.0.x and KDE 2.1. After doing a make install for > XFree86 and then for KDE2 I had hoped to be up and running after > configuring X for my display. What I was hoping was that on one of my > virtual terminals I'd have a nifty login screen that would then launch into > KDE. > > Unfortunately, I don't know what to do next. Running xdm isn't what I > want, nor kdm. Startx doesn't seem to be doing much. > > Can anyone tell me what steps one should take after the make install on > XFree86 and KDE2? I've tried poking around for docs on the system as well > as on the respective websites and am still stumped. > > Dan Anderson > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Tetron Software, LLC http://www.tetronsoftware.com FreeBSD Apache PostgreSQL Perl gcc/g++ Visual C++ COM/DCOM/COM+ ActiveX KDE Rules over Windoze ------------------------------------------------------- -- Tetron Software, LLC http://www.tetronsoftware.com FreeBSD Apache PostgreSQL Perl gcc/g++ Visual C++ COM/DCOM/COM+ ActiveX KDE Rules over Windoze To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message