Re: Problem with X11 (KDE) on my Workstation

[Phil Pennock <Phil.Pennock@globnix.org>]

On 2001-07-04 at 20:15 +0200, Johann Steigenberger gifted us with:
> Hi all,

Hi, you're posting to the wrong list.  I'm cross-posting the reply to
the correct list, misc@, but setting Reply-To to point to misc@.
Please don't mail tech@ with problems concerning setting up a system.
See:
 <http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html>
(my cross-posting is because I'm moving the thread)

> 1. Using the startx command X11 comes up but no KDE .....
> (Donīt know why it doesnīt)

Because you're not telling KDE to start.  Put the following two lines in
a file called .xinitrc in your home directory:
 unset SHLVL
 kdestart

> 2. When exiting the X11 and returning to Console the screen is
> very dark, so it is very difficult to read anything ...

This came up recently on the mailing-lists.  Did you search the archives
before posting?  Searching the monkey.org archives for "X11;dark" I see:
 <http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0106/msg00314.html>
to which Todd Miller followed up, saying:
 This is a problem with XFree86 4.03 which appears to be fixed in
 XFree86 4.1.

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