start kde in 8.1

Liontaur liontaur at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 03:59:53 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:

> hey guys,
>
>  I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1
>
>  I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start
> it:
>
>  echo "startkde" > ~/.xinitrc
>
>  I have attempted startx but the system doesn't know about it.
>
>  may I have a suggestion to proceed?
>
>  thanks!


For KDE4 it's
echo "exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde" > ~/.xinitrc

Mark


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