Setting up X in a gentoo install

Jorge Almeida jalmeida
Tue May 29 12:03:30 PDT 2007


On Tue, 29 May 2007, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> I got an early present of an IBM T40 laptop.  So I installed gentoo.  I
> compiled kde for it over the weekend.  When I type 'startx', I get some
> other X manager that starts with three text windows.  I can't resize
> them, and the bottoms go off the screen.  I can start kde within that
> windows environment, but the results are less than satisfactory.  (It
> does run fine.)  How and where do I change things so that xdm starts up
> kde instead of what I am getting now?  I need baby steps here.  TIA
>
Set DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" in /etc/rc.conf

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Jorge Almeida



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