From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 6:34:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E1737B405 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 06:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from max ([24.61.57.241]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020408133408.LZTH18078.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@max>; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:34:08 +0000 Message-ID: <200204080934180628.04DEEF23@mail.attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <3CB19142.A39B2D61@mchsi.com> References: <3CB19142.A39B2D61@mchsi.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 09:34:18 -0400 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: "Mark A. Hummel" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Startx, xdm, and kdm Danger??? 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 >4.4r with KDE 2.2. I want FBSD to start up in KDE, but I know I need a >script to do that. The script was about 5 lines long, but I no longer Hmm, what script would that be? And are you talking about starting KDE when you log in, or to have the KDM login manager? >xdm takes me to an xterm login screen even after I've already logged You must have xdm running, not kdm. See the following for help: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html and just use kdm whereever it says xdm. >in. Loging in again gets me to KDE, but when I logout, I get stuck in Yes, so you have your .xinitrc set up to run KDE, so you're all set. But if you want to run kdbm, see the above link for how to do it. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://jdarnold.tzo.com/FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message