From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 10:18:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from westhost43.westhost.net (westhost43.westhost.net [216.71.84.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F90937B405 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:18:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (burningclown@localhost) by westhost43.westhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBUILAJ25892; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:21:10 -0600 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:21:10 -0600 (CST) From: To: Tim Erlin Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: KDE2 installation In-Reply-To: <20011230181213.53966.qmail@web11703.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > I hope this isn't too dim a response, but KDE *is* a > desktop environment, so "adding it" to another > windomanager's menu doesn't really make sense (to me). Sometimes I like to switch from Blackbox to KDE. That's all. Not often. I like the light weight of bb. > You can run KDE apps (like Konqueror, Koffice, > Korganizer, etc) under other windowmanagers. Is that > closer to what you're trying to do? Not really, though I know that is possible. This all started when I tried to run Quanta under Blackbox, and got a very squirrely display. My thought was 'maybe it'll run better under KDE - why don't I just go install that?' > Hope that helps. And if you're interested in running > KDE as your desktop, then just put `startkde` to your > .xinitrc file before starting X. I'll add that and see what happens. Thanks, G +----------------+ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" +----------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message