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[Andrew L. Gould]

On Friday 03 June 2005 10:44 am, jose luis wrote:
> hi
> i need help.
> my english is little, then i hope that you understand me.
> well i use freebsd 5.3 i installed xorg and kde.
> i execute startkde and it appears this: kpersonalizer: can not
> connect Xserver i execute kdm  or xdm and it appear welcome freebsd
> later  i have to log the user, when i do this the screen appears
> black  and  it reappears (welcome freebsd) i execute  startx and it
> appears the xterm later i type startkde and the  desktop is up but
> there are two desktop xterm and kde and i can´t work. i hope that u
> understand and thank u very much.
>

Is the command 'startkde' in the .xinitrc file in your home directory?  
If not, try adding it to the file, then execute 'startx'.

This section of the online handbook may be of help:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

Good luck,

Andrew Gould