On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Thomas Boroske wrote:
> Hmm. As I understood, you tried "startkde" without starting the
> X-server first. Quote
> > 3) Yes, I know... Anyway, I have problems with starting KDE, startkde
> > screams about not being able to talk to the xserver, so I had to edit my
> > xinit to run startkde after X has started. 
> 
> [ BTW what do you mean with editing your "xinit" - what file 
> are you talking about here exactly ? ]

.xinitrc - my tryping has go too hell this dayz ;-)
 
> I was just saying that this is perfectly normal behaviour, 
> everything started in "startkde" expects the x-server to be already
> running, just like every other window manager.

Yup, this is what I had done, I was being told different by a mate with
KDE/linux...

Ta for the help.