Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, bobmc wrote: After KDE is installed, startx still launches the twm default X manager. Diligent RTFM only tells me it should work once the Xserver is configured for the video hardware and monitor. I have: export LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 exec startkde as the last lines in my ~/.xinitrc file. There's a few other lines to do with my Vietnamese keyboard input, but that's it. Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts: Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 4013Fax: +61 2 6247 2397 AinslieCell phone: 0417 293 603 Australia e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, bobmc wrote: After KDE is installed, startx still launches the twm default X manager. Diligent RTFM only tells me it should work once the Xserver is configured for the video hardware and monitor. I have: export LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 exec startkde as the last lines in my ~/.xinitrc file. There's a few other lines to do with my Vietnamese keyboard input, but that's it. Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts: Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 4013Fax: +61 2 6247 2397 AinslieCell phone: 0417 293 603 Australia e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-
On 03 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: Try this. Edit /etc/ttys thus: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure According to the kdm manual you should *not* use the -nodaemon Why do you? -- http://nagual.nl/ --- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 11/06 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-
Rob Hurle wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, bobmc wrote: After KDE is installed, startx still launches the twm default X manager. Diligent RTFM only tells me it should work once the Xserver is configured for the video hardware and monitor. I have: export LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 exec startkde as the last lines in my ~/.xinitrc file. There's a few other lines to do with my Vietnamese keyboard input, but that's it. Ok, that's a step forward since I put your startkde item in my .xinitrc. However, KDE said unable to connect to X server until I included X . It works but something is still amiss. There is no KDE splash background and it seems kinda slow. ## .xinitrc X exec startkde ## WindowMaker can be used instead of X \ startkde ## #xclock -geometry 50x50-1-1 #xdaemon2 -geometry +0-70 #wmaker #no here!-BobMc- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 03 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: Try this. Edit /etc/ttys thus: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure According to the kdm manual you should *not* use the -nodaemon Why do you? After install, ttyv8 names xdm and says it is off. Changing it per the email causes periodic prints on the text console making it unusable. So I left it at the original setting. -BobMc- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-
--On Wednesday, January 03, 2007 17:17:17 +0100 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: Try this. Edit /etc/ttys thus: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure According to the kdm manual you should *not* use the -nodaemon Why do you? Where does it say that? According to the online docs (http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/kdm/configuring-your-system-for-kdm.html) 'For FreeBSD, edit /etc/ttys and find the line like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure and edit it to this: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm xterm on secure' But that's not the same as saying don't use -nodaemon. According to the FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#X11-WM-KDE-DETAILS) 'To enable kdm, the ttyv8 entry in /etc/ttys has to be adapted. The line should look as follows: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure' If you detach the parent process, what happens when the child process dies? Will the parent respawn another child without initd running? In any case, I did what the Handbook stated, because I trust that the FreeBSD developers know what they're doing, and that's what they told the guys that write the docs to use for kdm. Someone with more knowledge than I have would have to explain the technical aspects of that choice. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-
On 03 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, January 03, 2007 17:17:17 +0100 dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the kdm manual you should *not* use the -nodaemon Where does it say that? According to the online docs 'For FreeBSD, edit /etc/ttys and find the line like this: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure and edit it to this: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm xterm on secure' But that's not the same as saying don't use -nodaemon. To me at least it sounds like the kde / kdm developers say what I have to do on a FreeBSD machine, don't you? I agree the words don't use -nodaemon are not used, but they are not in their command line. According to the FreeBSD Handbook 'To enable kdm, the ttyv8 entry in /etc/ttys has to be adapted. The line should look as follows: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure' In any case, I did what the Handbook stated, because I trust that the FreeBSD developers know what they're doing, and that's what they told the guys that write the docs to use for kdm. Someone with more knowledge than I have would have to explain the technical aspects of that choice. The handbook is kind of a fbsd bible. I must say it's very thorough. Absolutely _the_ book to read when you run a fbsd flavour. Still I hope that someone more technical than I am will explain some more on this topic. -- http://nagual.nl/ --- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 11/06 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
starting KDE after install .. -not-
After KDE is installed, startx still launches the twm default X manager. Diligent RTFM only tells me it should work once the Xserver is configured for the video hardware and monitor. WindowMaker provides a pleasant GUI once I create a $HOME/.xinitrc file. Firefox and Thunderbird work fine. However, nowhere can I find instructions for the complete integration of KDE and I am missing the use of K3b and other useful apps included with KDE. -Bob- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On January 3, 2007 12:46:10 AM -0500 bobmc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After KDE is installed, startx still launches the twm default X manager. Diligent RTFM only tells me it should work once the Xserver is configured for the video hardware and monitor. WindowMaker provides a pleasant GUI once I create a $HOME/.xinitrc file. Firefox and Thunderbird work fine. However, nowhere can I find instructions for the complete integration of KDE and I am missing the use of K3b and other useful apps included with KDE. -Bob- Try this. Edit /etc/ttys thus: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure From the Handbook. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ Thank you for the clue .. it was set to xdm. However, xdm hides the console to present a graphical login. I am trying to launch KDE after logging in so changing /etc/ttys has no effect.-Bob- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-
--On January 3, 2007 12:46:10 AM -0500 bobmc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After KDE is installed, startx still launches the twm default X manager. Diligent RTFM only tells me it should work once the Xserver is configured for the video hardware and monitor. WindowMaker provides a pleasant GUI once I create a $HOME/.xinitrc file. Firefox and Thunderbird work fine. However, nowhere can I find instructions for the complete integration of KDE and I am missing the use of K3b and other useful apps included with KDE. -Bob- Try this. Edit /etc/ttys thus: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure From the Handbook. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
