From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 22:11:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 815F516A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:11:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hourri.hittite.isp.9tel.net (hourri.hittite.isp.9tel.net [62.62.156.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1E443D3F for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:11:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lichtner@9online.fr) Received: from [62.39.221.45] (45.221.39-62.rev.gaoland.net [62.39.221.45]) by hourri.hittite.isp.9tel.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE5B158654 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:49:30 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:00:36 +0100 From: Edward Lichtner To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Subject: How do I get KDM to launch KDE ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:11:30 -0000 Hi, I selected KDM to run at startup by editing /etc/ttys : ttyv8 =B3/usr/local/bin/kdm =ADnodaemon=B2 xterm on secure I also created a .xsession file both in /root and in my home directory with the line : exec startkde When I reboot, KDM starts up but when I login (correct password), the login windows disappears, the KDM background remains and KDE doesn=B9t start. However, KDE starts fine when I run startx in a terminal session. Is there something I didn=B9t do properly ? Thanks, Edward BTW, I use FreeBSD 5.3, Xorg 6.7.0-9, KDE 3.3.0-4