Dragonlinux & KDE

I'm running DragonLinux, and had all the packages installed during setup necessary to run KDE (I think).

I just don't know where to start for using KDE. Any help is appreciated

$startx
--will start the x server, if the gui u get isnt kde then u need to do the following;

from the command line create a file in ur home directory called .xinitrc

$touch .xinitrc

then edit this file and add the command for lauching kde to this line.

startkde

so all u should have is 1 line in that file. save it, exit, then retype startx from the command prompt. now u should be looking at kde

Thanks for the help.

Unfortunately I get a "Command not found" when I type

startx

at the prompt

I made sure that KDE was installed during setup.

Try restarting, on my computer sometimes startx only works once per username per boot. If it still doesn't work, this means that X-Windows isn't installed and you won't be able to runn KDE GNOME or any other GUI until it is.

the shell will tell u that it cant find startx because it cant find it, is ur path env variable set? ity may be installed already

try running a find command, or whereis startx
after that u have to put in the full path of the command to get it to work
on most systems this is at /usr/X11R6/bin so the absolute path is
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx so type this at ur command line.
to make it easier in the future, edit ur profile and for the path variable just add
/usr/X11R6/bin, now in future all u have to do is type startx

Thanks, I think I neglected to install X-Windows. I'll try again tomorrow -- thanks again

I still can't get KDE running here

I reinstalled DragonLinux with all of the installation options checked (X-Windows IS installed). I still get a "Command not found" when I type startx (even from the full path)

Any suggestions on what to do from here?