Setting up X in a gentoo install

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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
> 
> No offense, but if you need baby steps, why are you running Gentoo?

because it gives me the greatest control over my environment.  I have
some laser beam competency in some areas, I just never explored X
before.  I just don't know where it is broken, and don't know enough
about it to start exploring on my own.

    -- Alma