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axslinger
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 Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 7:46 pm Post subject: KDE only gives terminal window |
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My system comes up with my kde login. But when I log in, I dont get the full kde desktop. I just get a grey x windows background with a terminal in the upper left corner. I can't remember where this is configured.
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: KDE only gives terminal window |
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There is an option for what type of session you want to use in the bottom of the kdm login screen. Did you choose kde-3.0.x in that?
| axslinger wrote: | My system comes up with my kde login. But when I log in, I dont get the full kde desktop. I just get a grey x windows background with a terminal in the upper left corner. I can't remember where this is configured.
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axslinger
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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That option is no longer available. It used to be there. And I don't recall making any changes.
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phantasm
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| Are you sure your not launching XDM instead of KDM? Just a guess |
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axslinger
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 1:49 am Post subject: |
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Heres some additonal info. When I boot, I get a KDE login, but my only session types are Default and Failsafe. Either one just gives me an X terminal. If I type startkde in that terminal, then KDE will start but if I close the terminal, KDE dies. It doesnt seperate from the terminal.
If I go to console #1 (the black, standard terminal) and type startkde, it can't find a display. It says 'Unable to open display' and 'Cannot connect to Xserver' as well as '$Display is not set'. To me, that means that there is no Xserver running.
If instead I just type KDM, I get the same 'older looking' KDE login with only the Default and Failsafe Session Types available.
Now, if I kill all kde and kdm tasks and type in startx, it goes right into KDE on console 7. But there are 2 things not quite right: 1) It doesn't go to a login. It goes straight to KDE and 2) It continues to send its output to console 1. If I hit Ctrl-C in conlole 1, it kills KDE. It used to run independent of the console it was started from. Hope this makes sense to someone.
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2002 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| axslinger wrote: | | Heres some additonal info. When I boot, I get a KDE login, but my only session types are Default and Failsafe. Either one just gives me an X terminal. If I type startkde in that terminal, then KDE will start but if I close the terminal, KDE dies. It doesnt seperate from the terminal. |
This is expected. When you start up this way, the X session will be killed when the xterm goes away (standard xdm/kdm... behavior)
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If I go to console #1 (the black, standard terminal) and type startkde, it can't find a display. It says 'Unable to open display' and 'Cannot connect to Xserver' as well as '$Display is not set'. To me, that means that there is no Xserver running. |
This is because you haven't set the display variable. If you do "export DISPLAY=:0.0" and then do startkde, it won't complain about the display. However, your X server may not have started, so don't do it yet 
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If instead I just type KDM, I get the same 'older looking' KDE login with only the Default and Failsafe Session Types available. |
We'll come to this later.
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Now, if I kill all kde and kdm tasks and type in startx, it goes right into KDE on console 7. But there are 2 things not quite right: 1) It doesn't go to a login. It goes straight to KDE and 2) It continues to send its output to console 1. If I hit Ctrl-C in conlole 1, it kills KDE. It used to run independent of the console it was started from. Hope this makes sense to someone. |
This is correct too. startx starts your X session and not your kdm. It will send output to the console too. You can do:
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startx &> /dev/null &
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it will startx in the background and send output and errors to /dev/null. If this is OK for you, you can stop here.
Back to kdm. I guess you have emerged kde3. If you have, start kdm explicitly by doing /usr/kde/3/bin/kdm to make sure you are not running an older version. If this still does not work, you need to look at the directory /etc/X11/Sessions. It will list the available kdm sessions and as scripts. If you don't find something that says kde... there, you would need to dump the following code into a file "kde-3.0.2" (or "kde-3.0.1"):
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#!/bin/sh
/usr/kde/3/bin/startkde
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Make this script executable by doing:
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chmod a+rx /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.0.2
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This file should have come from kdebase already. So, you can also try re-emerging kdebase to see whether you get the file back instead of doing the above. |
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axslinger
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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I tried doing | Code: | | export DISPLAY=:0.0 |
then running startkde and I got | Quote: | | xset: unable to open display "0.0" |
That message came up several times, then a slew of other failure messages came up. Just typing in kdm still gives me a login, and now I have a kde option for the Session Type, but when I select kde then login, I just get the X screen with xterm in the upper left corner. So basically, nothing has changed. But, StartX will still get me into a KDE session, without a login, and outputting data to vc1.
So thats where it stands right now. Ho hum.
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axslinger
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 11:12 am Post subject: |
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| This issue has been resolved. My kdmrc file got whacked when upgrading from 3.0 to 3.0.2. Restoring an old file fixed it. |
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