I received my OpenBSD 3.9 CD set today and did the initial install with
no problem. Now, I'd like to set this box up for desktop use. The CD's
include a number or i386 packages including a number of kde packages,
such as kdebase, kdelibs, kdeedu, and kdegames.
I want to setup kde with kdm when I login. Eventually , I'd like to add
gnomestuff to this as well.
At this point, I've got kdm working when the box starts, and I can
choose KDE from the kdm session menu, but when I login, I get what
looks to be twm (or some other minimilist window manager). I have
installed the 4 KDE packages from the OpenBSD 3.9 disk.
I've also created a ~/.xinitrc file for my user account and put 'exec
startkde' in that file.
Following the instructions at www.openbsdsupport.org/obsd_desktop I'm
able to get xdm up at startup (nice little Puffy icon and Welcome
screen) but there does not appear to be a way to get to choose what
session to start.
I have added the sessions to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession as listed on that
page and added xdm_flags="" to /etc/rc.conf.local.
I can manually run /usr/local/bin/startkde, so that *does* work. Just
can't seem to choose to launch it from xdm (or kdm/gdm, but I haven't
gotten that far yet ;-) )
So, my question is, what did I leave out to get this working? Also, if
there's a good "How to setup OpenBSD for the desktop" out there to
point me to, that'd be great as well.
Especially some of the things I've still got to do around fonts and the
FontPath section of xorg.conf.
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Cheers,
Trey
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