Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 13:42:15 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: James <effdefender@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting KDE to work Message-ID: <200206301342.15682.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <000f01c2205c$82adbf20$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> References: <000f01c2205c$82adbf20$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net>
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On Sunday 30 June 2002 01:35 pm, James wrote: > I'm new to FreeBSD (thought I have basic experience using Solaris, I'm > pretty new to UNIX). Thank you everyone for your help so far. > I had a lot of trouble getting KDE to work, but I finally did a "make > install clean" on KDE3. It successfully installed. I've installed XFr= ee86 > version 4.2. I can't seem to get KDE to run. >=20 > I type: #startkde > and it then spits back: I am assuming that you want to start kde when X starts? You want edit th= e=20 =2Exinitrc file in your home directory and put in: exec startkde then you can just type at the # prompt: startx >=20 > xsetroot: unable to open display '' > xset: unable to open display "" > ksplash: cannot connect to X server > kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. > ksmserver: cannot connect to X server > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > Error: Can't contact kdeinit! >=20 >=20 > My guess is that I need to set the display somehow (though I could be > wrong). How would I do this? I've run through the /stand/sysinstall > installation for XFree86 3 times. >=20 > I checked XF86Config to make sure it was there and looked reasonable (t= hough > I could only guess at that). It has a section "ServerLayout" where the > Screen field is: > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >=20 > It looks like extra 0s, but I don't know for sure. Could this be the > problem? >=20 > Thanks in advance! > -James Turnbull >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 >=20 --=20 Anish Mistry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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