I have been having a lot of trouble getting the KDE desktop environment working on FreeBSD 10.1. When I entered
After more searching I found a website at http://www.unixmen.com/install-kde-in-freebsd-9x/ which says to enter some things in /etc/rc.conf. I did that and now when the computer boots up it starts up the X window system with KDE. What I would prefer is for it to start in the command line and then I would enter
One thing I find confusing is how the computer is able to start the X window system with KDE even though I was not able to install KDE. I wonder if I have only an incomplete version of KDE. In addition, I would like to be able to close the X window system and go back to the command line. I found this thread https://pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=9458 which says that I can push Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go back to the command line but KDE is still running in the background. Someone said to turn the "on" to "off" in the /etc/ttys for the tty that it runs on and it won't start up when the computer boots anymore, but when I checked this file, it says,
and it still starts the X window system upon booting. Someone else said Ctrl+Alt+Backspace kills X, but actlthat didn't do anything for me. That forum is for PC-BSD and I am running FreeBSD, so it might not be exactly the same, but there doesn't seem to be an exit button in KDE. How can I completely close KDE/X window system and not have it remain idle in ttyv8?
I had FreeBSD 4.6 with KDE on a computer I used from 2002-2008 and I was able to start the X window system with KDE by typing
In short my questions are:
1. How do I set the computer not to start KDE upon booting up and instead start KDE when I enter
2. How do I complete the installation of KDE?
3. How do I exit KDE?
make install clean
while in /usr/ports/x11/kde4 I got an error saying that I need to upgrade kdeadmin. I tried using portsnap
but it still did not work. I found Thread need-to-upgrade-to-kdeadmin-4-12-5.47009 where someone said that make deinstall
and make reinstall
solved part of the problem but that did nothing for me. When I entered make deinstall
it said that "kde not installed, skipping". When I entered make reinstall
I got the same error again about kdeadmin.After more searching I found a website at http://www.unixmen.com/install-kde-in-freebsd-9x/ which says to enter some things in /etc/rc.conf. I did that and now when the computer boots up it starts up the X window system with KDE. What I would prefer is for it to start in the command line and then I would enter
startx
to start the X window system. After installing the X window system but before entering that stuff in /etc/rc.conf, when I entered startx
, it opened a graphical interface with three terminal windows and an analog clock. I could not type anything or move the mouse in this environment and the only thing I could do was reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Del. Now, when I type startx
from the command line, I get the same environment and I can move the mouse and type things into the terminal windows.One thing I find confusing is how the computer is able to start the X window system with KDE even though I was not able to install KDE. I wonder if I have only an incomplete version of KDE. In addition, I would like to be able to close the X window system and go back to the command line. I found this thread https://pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=9458 which says that I can push Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go back to the command line but KDE is still running in the background. Someone said to turn the "on" to "off" in the /etc/ttys for the tty that it runs on and it won't start up when the computer boots anymore, but when I checked this file, it says,
Code:
ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure"
I had FreeBSD 4.6 with KDE on a computer I used from 2002-2008 and I was able to start the X window system with KDE by typing
startx
on the command line and I am pretty sure there was an exit button in KDE. I also removed some of the stuff from /etc/rc.conf that unixmen.com said I should enter and KDE still starts up when the computer boots up. Also, when I am in KDE it seems that a lot of things are broken. When I enter a URL In Konqueror, it says the URL is improperly formated. There are icons with an "X" on a red background in the bottom tray and when I move my mouse over them, it said it was unable to load the widget. I don't know, but I suspect that this is a consequence of KDE not installing all the way.In short my questions are:
1. How do I set the computer not to start KDE upon booting up and instead start KDE when I enter
startx
?2. How do I complete the installation of KDE?
3. How do I exit KDE?