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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:52:44 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Byron Schlemmer <me@byron.me.uk>
To:        Colin Harford <colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Starting KDE
Message-ID:  <20020206125110.T1532-100000@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
In-Reply-To: <B885D21C.3413%colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>

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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Colin Harford wrote:

> I have been using gnome with window manager for a gui, and I want to give
> KDE installed.  So I updated my ports tree and installed KDE from the ports.
>
> What I put in startkde I get this:
>
> $ startkde
> xsetroot:  unable to open display ''
> xset:  unable to open display ""
> ksplash: cannot connect to X server
> Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
> ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
> connect() failed: : No such file or directory

Try putting exec /usr/local/bin/startkde into your .xinitrc file and
running startx.

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