Re: Fail to start KDE and Gnome

Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi folks,

FreeBSD-6.2-amd64

This is a test, I insalled aprox >80% of the packages on Disc 2
After installation completed PC rebooted to runlevel 3. Login as user
and run;

$ startkde
warning:
Kpersonalizer : Cannot connect to Xserer
- repeated-

$ gnome-session
(gnome-session 1968) gtk-Warning ** cannot open displayed

$ startx
3 xterm windows started. On xterm I can start KDE with a lot of
warning displayed on xterm windonw. But I can't start Gnome on xterm.

I can start "firefox" on xterm. Now I'm posting on "firefox" browser.

Please advise where I have to check fixing the problems. TIA

There are two files that control which windowsmanager shall be used
(depending on whether you use a login manager or just startx)
One is called .xinitrc the other one .xsession - they are both in your
home directory - create them (you can create one of them and symlink the
other one) and add the start command to the file (full path) - and make
sure they are set executable (chmod 755 <filename>)
eg. for kde:
exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
eg for gnome:
exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session


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Armin Pirkovitsch
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