How to start KDE?

[Tilman Linneweh]

* Laszlo Antal [Mi, 11 Aug 2004 at 20:22 GMT]:
> Everything was going fine until the book telling me to CREATE A FILE
> " .xinitrc " in my home directory.
> Well, How can I do that?? and why do I need it?

echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc

> I installed only KDE so would it work if I will only type " startx" ??

No, the default windowmanager is twm, which is installed with X

regards
arved