Well I bit the bullit and bought a Sun Ultra 5 to play around with and have found in very short time that I don't like the Common Desktop Enviroment, it doesn't hold a candle to kde in my opinion. So I did a reinstall of Solaris ( it needed it anyway ) and had it install kde ( was on a CD that came with Solaris ) and it installed right but I can't for the life of me see how to start it. Since it was a binary I didn't see where it was installed to. I searched on sun and google and google just said to type startkde at the prompt, but that does not work, nor can I find a startkde in the filesystem anywhere, does anyone here know what kind of funky dance I need to do to get it to start kde? Thank you.

What happens when you just startx ? I have seen some wacky setups where startx will load KDE (seem to remember doing this during Debian install, albeit might have been hallucinating; long time without food and water during the install. ;> )

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I know that this is a very old post but I finally figured it out so I thought I would come back and share it, I did a fresh install of solaris with all the optional packages, which included kde but when it would come up to the graphical login kde would not be in the list if you at the prompt go to /opt/sfw/kde there was an install script you had to run then it would show up in the list. After that it all worked great, now I can finally use my solaris machine.