"Mark Haney" <[email protected]> posted [email protected], excerpted below, on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:58:24 -0500:
> This may be a n00b question, but how the heck do I get KDE 4.2 to start? > I've edited /etc/rc.conf to XESSSION="kde-4.2" and that didn't work. I > don't think I hhad to edit /etc/conf.d/xdm last time since it was still > set to "kdm". XSESSION is for when you start KDE (or other *DE, GNOME, XFCE, etc) from a CLI login using startx -- that controls which session startx uses, thus the name of the variable. This is the way I run X and KDE. I actually have a script that switches a few things in my homedir around depending on whether I want to run KDE3 or KDE4, then sets XSESSION (in my script) so startx selects the correct startkde (the 3.5 or 4.2 version). If you're running a GUI login, XSESSION doesn't control it, the ?dm (xdm/kdm/gdm/whatever) settings control what choices you have there. I've not run X this way in years, so don't keep up with the settings for it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
