Difficulties to launch KDE

Michał Masłowski mtmi at o2.pl
Sun Oct 23 08:13:51 PDT 2005


> Hello:
>
> I am sure you will find my problem quite easy. I just installed FreeBSD
> 5.4, and I configured KDE and related configurations according with the
> handbook. My .xinitrc file contains only the line: "echo "exec startkde"".
> When I type "startx" everything seems to be well, but KDE doesn't start.
> There are no errors reported or anything pointing to the problem, except a
> line at the end which reads:
>
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "Monique.gateway.2wire.net:0" in
> "remove" command
>
> I am behind a wireless modem-router with domain name "gateway.2wire.net".
>
> I do not know what command "remove" is referred here or where it occurs,
> and how to fix it. No entry like this in "xorg.conf".
>
> I will appreciate any help.
>
> Teilhard.

Do you have "exec startkde" in .xinitrc ?
"echo "exec startkde"" is used to put it in a file.

If this problem still occurs, read startx's man page.

I don't know anything about xauth.


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