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lostpaperclips
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 4:50 pm    Post subject: Double-checking the .xinitrc content to start Plasma 5.4 Reply with quote

I am a long time KDE 4 user that is finally making the jump to plasma. I typically start my computer at run-level 3 & then start X myself due to some poor life decisions (i.e. I bought an ATI video card).

I was curious if I should adjust the content of my .xinitrc file:

Code:
exec ck-launch-session startkde


I was poking around and saw on some forum a recommendation for

Code:
kstart plasmashell


For me, the latter didn't work quite right.

Can anyone confirm or deny if I am using the correct contents for .xinitrc?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Disclaimer: I don't use KDE so I have no clue about what each kde command does.

What's it dong wrong is the first question?

I would imagine you would need to use something like:

Code:
exec ck-launch-session kstart plasmashell


(if kstart plasmashell is the correct way to start a kde session normall)

as you still need to launch a consolekit session. But since I don't know how kde works, if you forget to launch a consolekit session, it should still load up but anything that requires root access will probably break (like dealing with disks, network, etc.)

I have an ATI card and it can be used with graphical logins that have built-in consolekit support, it should work fine. Just gdm with systemd = death.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the suggestion, though that didn't quite work for me either as then I was missing a window manager. :(

I found on http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/kde5/starting.html a suggestion to try

Code:
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde


That appears to work well so far. The system seemed to load faster and for the first time I had a progress bar during the initial loading.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 1:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This what I use in both KDE4 and KDE5:
Code:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startkde
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