Matt Thanks a million for the help. looks dead dauting, but ill give it a go!! Cheers Dan -----Original Message----- From: Matt Gumbley [mailto:mgumbley@enigmadata.co.uk] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 11:05 AM To: KDE User List Subject: Re: Running KDE on Solaris Jake Colman wrote: > > Create a .xinitrc in your home directory with the single command "startkde". > Then select OpenWin as your Window Manager. When OpenWin starts, it will > look for a .xinitrc file and do whatever it says. I experienced Big Pain(tm) when trying this - It worked fine in my previous life as an fvwm95 user on Solaris, but under KDE, I had to resort to the following .xinitrc to get rid of the CDE/Solaris splash screen: #!/usr/local/bin/bash # # # No annoying screen blanking xset s off # # Add free fonts xset fp default xset +fp /apps/gnu/freefont # # Netscape 4.5 installation docs say this fixes font rendering problems # with Solaris 2.6 xset +fp /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ xset fp rehash # xhost + > /dev/null # # dthello outta ma face /usr/openwin/bin/xsetroot -solid black /mjg/utils/bin/killproc dthello # # Qt/KDE initialisation PATH=$PATH:/mjg/utils/kde/bin QTDIR=/mjg/utils/qt if [ $LD_LIBRARY_PATH ] then LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH else LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib fi LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LIBRARY_PATH /mjg/utils/kde/bin/startkde & #/export/home/mgumbley/utils/bin/fvwm95 & sleep 15 xterm -geometry 80x10-0-0 -T Console -name console -C -- Matt J. Gumbley, Software Engineer | Enigma Data Systems Ltd. Email: mgumbley@enigmadata.co.uk | Chelsea House, 8-14 The Broadway, Tel: +44 (0)1444 476500 | Direct: | Haywards Heath, West Sussex. Fax: +44 (0)1444 476501 | 476510 | RH16 3AP England. -- Send posts to: kde-user@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" All kde mailing lists are archived at http://lists.kde.org ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral -- Send posts to: kde-user@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" All kde mailing lists are archived at http://lists.kde.org ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral