configuring KDE on FreeBSD 6.0

[Malcolm Kay]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:24 am, Wendell Anderson wrote:
> I have successfully installed FreeBSD 6.0  with X.org and
> KDE 3.4.3.
>
> When I execute "startx" the  "tcm"  windowing system, starts
> up fine. However when I try starting KDE, I get x-server
> errors.

Do you mean tcm or twm?

>
> I need help in configuring KDE to proper operation.

How are you trying to start KDE?

Do you want to boot into a graphical login screen or start KDE 
from the command line.

To start from the command line you need to replace the window 
manager line in ~/.xinitrc with:
 startkde
or if you don't have ~/.xinitrc creating it with that line.
Now:
% startx
should start up KDE

To start a graphical X windows login at boot up the easiest 
is to change 'off' to 'on' in the line:
 ttyv8   "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   off secure
which starts the standard xdm display manager and login 
interface.
With this you'll need to inform xdm which windows-manager/desktop 
to use bye creating a file ~/.xsession containing say:

#!/bin/sh
startkde

You should make this file executable (chmod +x .xsession).

% man xdm 
will explain.

Both .xinitrc and .xsession can be used to also perform some 
customisation eg setting PATH, setting modmap, etc.
KDE also offers a kde specific replacement for xdm but this to me 
seems the wrong way to go. Other users may want to run a 
different windows-manager/desktop which they can easily do using 
their own .xsession file with xdm.

Besides xdm has standard unix style documentation (man page) 
which seems to be frowned upon by the kde organisation. For sure 
once it is up KDE offers some browser based help which explains 
what you would have probably guessed anyway but stops short of 
answering any difficult questions.

Malcolm

>
> Wendell Anderson
> wanderson at nac.net
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