Hello,
I am about as new as it gets to FreeBSD, and am trying to learn a bit about it, but I figured it may be best to start my BSD learning experience in something I am a bit more familiar with, a GUI.
I have already accomplished installing BSD and downloading KDE3 via, I believe, ports. I entered something along the lines of [cmd=]cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE[/cmd] and [cmd=]make install clean[/cmd]
Anyway, after a long and strained effort of the download/install I finally regained control of the command prompt only to find that I could not, for the life of me, get KDE running. I attempted getting it to run by entering something along the lines of [cmd=]echo "exec startkde" ~/.xinitrc[/cmd] but to no avail.
Also, it seems every time I reboot the computer and check on .Xinitrc, all changes have disappeared. I have also attempted running the command [cmd=]startkde[/cmd] which lead me to an endless continuation of the command prompt saying:
This comes after a few short strings of text which I do not manage to read in time.
I apologize for any lack or vague information, and if more information is required just give the word and I will do my best to post it, but can anyone possibly help me get KDE running (with startup if possible) so I can begin my experience with BSD?
I am about as new as it gets to FreeBSD, and am trying to learn a bit about it, but I figured it may be best to start my BSD learning experience in something I am a bit more familiar with, a GUI.
I have already accomplished installing BSD and downloading KDE3 via, I believe, ports. I entered something along the lines of [cmd=]cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE[/cmd] and [cmd=]make install clean[/cmd]
Anyway, after a long and strained effort of the download/install I finally regained control of the command prompt only to find that I could not, for the life of me, get KDE running. I attempted getting it to run by entering something along the lines of [cmd=]echo "exec startkde" ~/.xinitrc[/cmd] but to no avail.
Also, it seems every time I reboot the computer and check on .Xinitrc, all changes have disappeared. I have also attempted running the command [cmd=]startkde[/cmd] which lead me to an endless continuation of the command prompt saying:
Code:
kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server
I apologize for any lack or vague information, and if more information is required just give the word and I will do my best to post it, but can anyone possibly help me get KDE running (with startup if possible) so I can begin my experience with BSD?