Can't start KDE or TWM with KDM

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Tue Oct 3 11:11:32 PDT 2006


On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Frank Petitjean wrote:

> > Well, I'm just a french guy. But I met that a couple of times. I guess that
> > there is a line somewhere which still refers to /usr/X11R6. So that's what I
> > wrote in my shell :
> > #ln -s /usr/pkg/xorg /usr/X11R6
> > It worked for me.
> > 
> 
> Thanks David, it works fine.
> I just had to change the location from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11.
> 
> Do you know whether it is possible to install a package like xorg to its
> normal location (ie /usr/X11) ?

Note that /usr/X11 is not normal. Xorg works fine installed using defaults 
(/usr/pkg/xorg) or using /usr/X11R6/.

I may have misunderstood the earlier emails in this thread. ... But I 
think it would better to fix the problem itself instead of creating 
un-needed symlinks or moving X around.





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