trouble with getting kde to start

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adpowers · Post by **adpowers** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 12:23 am

My .xinitrc file contains "exec kde". When I try to run startx, I get the error "/root/.xinitrc: line 1: exec: kde: not found". Also, when I load kdm, it doesn't list KDE as an option and, when someone logs in, it gives a really ugly interface with just one terminal window. Any help would be greatly appreciated because I have been having trouble finding similar problems on the message board.

Andrew

drakonite · Post by **drakonite** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 1:36 am

I think the program you need to run is actually startkde

Also make sure you've properly installed kde.

pilla · Post by **pilla** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 1:39 am

the correct line in .xinitrc is just

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startkde

adpowers · Post by **adpowers** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 8:34 am

Awesome, it works, thanks. Everyone on this forum is helpful. Thanks

.

I have a second question, when we load kdm, we can login, but it doesn't use KDE. It uses a really ugly window manager with just one terminal windows.

Thanks again,
Andrew

darcym · Post by **darcym** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 4:42 pm

I am having the same problem as mentioned above.

ie, I installed Xfree, and then compiled kde-3.0.5a

All works well.

my problems is if I start kdm as my login manager kde is not an option to start, to get around this, I have edited /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and added kde as a "session" option

# Session types the users can select. It is advisable to have "default" and
# "failsafe" listed herein, which is also the default.
# Note, that the meaning of this value is entirely up to your Session program.
SessionTypes=Xsession,kde

Now when I start kdm I DO get a kde session option, however this dissapears after a reboot.

To make sure this works I then followed the startup from /etc/X11/xdm/Xsessions, this calls the "chooser.sh" script
which references options from /etc/X11/Sessions/Xsession

I have edited Xsessions to look like this
case $# in
1)
case $1 in
failsafe)
exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
;;

kde)
exec /usr/bin/startkde
;;
esac
esac

so as I see it this should work, yet when I login to kdm using the kde option, I still start the basic Xsession, and when I restart the Xderver kde is gone from the options (/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc has lost the kde option in sessiontypes)

Whats going on here ???? I just want to use kdm to manage my windows session and then start a kde desktop ???

Little help please.

Thanks,

Matt.

pilla · Post by **pilla** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 4:52 pm

Try

/usr/kde/3.0/bin/startkde

darcym · Post by **darcym** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 5:26 pm

good point, but I compiled kde from source into /usr so /usr/bin /usr/etc /usr/lib etc etc etc

any other comments ?

darcym · Post by **darcym** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 5:33 pm

which startkde
/usr/bin/startkde

Thanks,

Matt

darcym · Post by **darcym** » Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:41 pm

1.) the main problem is kde not being available as a session, however to test this I have tried a few things to try and narrow down where the problems lie

I created a .xinitrc file in a users $HOME dir that contains
/usr/bin/startkde

when the user logs in it still starts the basic twm desktop

I launched twm desktop, and then ran startkde within a xterm, and another couple of twm windows opened containing a kde desktop and a kde menu bar.

I launch startkde from the command line and it doesn't start a X server so it can't start kde.

I am running out of options for this.

Suggestions / comments welcome.

Thanks,

Matt.

trouble with getting kde to start

trouble with getting kde to start

kde not an option as a Xsession

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