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  1. 10-27-2006 #1
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    After installing KDE from apt-get

    This may sound stupid but how do you run the KDE program in Linux (like *.exe in Win)
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    The binary for a program (.exe in win) is usually in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin

    You can execute it from a shell or create a shortcut
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    Quote Originally Posted by er&
    This may sound stupid but how do you run the KDE program in Linux (like *.exe in Win)
    Which distro are you using ? Debian ? Ubuntu ?

    The easiest way would be to choose KDE as your session at your login manager prompt (where it ask your username and password) just after boot.
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    Did you install kdm? Running KDM as root from the console will load KDE. If you were running GNOME previously the when you are on the login screen there should be an option somewhere to log into KDE instead or GNOME.
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    Try startx or init 4.
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    X Server

    Changed the inittab from 2 to 4. Use startkde to run KDE and it just gave me an infinite loop of:

    "kpersononalizer: cannot connect to X Server"

    Then looked for X11 xserver-xorg for an X-Windows thing but none of them seem to dpkg -i.
    Always missing a directory?
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    Create a file named .xinitrc on your /home directory
    Add "exec startkde" inside it

    Try startx again
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