[kde-freebsd] Problems Starting KDE (3.5.3 on FreeBSD 6.1)

Philip Rodrigues philip.rodrigues at chch.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jul 20 17:42:11 BST 2006


Sean M. wrote:

> I am having problems with KDE. At first, 'startx' would just give me a
> black screen with the X-shaped mouse cursor, and then just sit there. I
> fixed this somewhat by editing /etc/hosts, and now I can start it up,
> but there are still issues:
> 
> 1) I can only start KDE as root. There are three users, and 'startx'
> for them still won't work. (NB. my startx is the stock one that comes
> with X.org 6.9 with 'startkde' added at the end.)

The standard way to tell X to start KDE is by editing ~/.xinitrc. You might
want to try that instead of modifying startx. See:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html

What happens when you try to start X as a non-root user?

Regards,
Philip
-- 
KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc
KDE Documentation Online: http://docs.kde.org

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