Difficulties to launch KDE

[Philip Lykke Carlsen]

Sunday 23 October 2005 17:13 skrev Michał Masłowski:
> > 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.

Well, .xinitrc only needs to contain "startkde".. the echo thing will only 
write it to the terminal you use to start X with.. 
your xauth problem is probably due to your hostname not being in 
your /etc/hosts.. just add it under localhost and you should be fine..