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

[Sean M.]

--- Philip Rodrigues <philip.rodrigues at chch.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
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Exactly what I described in the second sentence

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