Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:33:04 -0700 From: seth <qwestions2001@yahoo.com> Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server Message-ID: <3BD314E0.7287AB66@yahoo.com> References: <007601c15a46$e936fc70$0200000a@stardust>
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I recently had a problem with with getting GNOME to work. This was my 3rd install of FreeBSD on my P3 450Mhz with a Savage4 Pro+ video card. I had gotten X to work in my previous installs, but never documented the specifics. Also I had ALWAYS had to install X from scratch - the method of /stand/sysinstall never worked for me. So finally I re-installed Freebsd with the User+X option. All the right files got installed. I got GNOME working.. but kept getting error "This is not a GNOME compatible windows manager" - or something like that. After doing some research.. I found that SOME window-managers do not work with GNOME. This MAY be your problem with KDE. TWM was my default window manager.... So I went to /usr/ports/x11-wm/sawfish. sawfish was the window-manager which I was interested in. I changed to the path shown above.. and typed - "make" without the quotes of course. I restarted X-windows and the correct window-manager was selected- "sawfish" You MIGHT want to look into this b4 "make"ing another window manager. I don't know the specifics for KDE. I found my info on dejanews.com ALSO. I had to comment my security settings in rc.conf. I never reliased this about FreeBSD - that during initial install if you select a high security setting - X or startx will not work. In my case startx didn't work as root or as other users. Try to check what I had done for your system. The good thing is, your X works!! -Q Ørjan W Tønder wrote: > im not getting KDE to work under the wheel acount,i added the exec > startkde too .xsession but it still just starts in TWM, i can run KDE > under the TWM but thats no fun :pwhat do i need todo to get the KDE to > run on the startx command ? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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