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lostpaperclips n00b
Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 13 Location: United States
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 4:50 pm Post subject: Double-checking the .xinitrc content to start Plasma 5.4 |
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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
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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eccerr0r Watchman
Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 9645 Location: almost Mile High in the USA
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Intel Core i7 2700K/Radeon R7 250/24GB DDR3/256GB SSD
What am I supposed watching? |
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lostpaperclips n00b
Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 13 Location: United States
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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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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davidbrooke Guru
Joined: 03 Jan 2015 Posts: 341
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 1:23 am Post subject: |
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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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