Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of.
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:55:20
Message-Id: 483D5623.7050905@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE 4.0.4 upgrade, sort of. by "Hemmann
1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
2 > On Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
3 >
4 >> Well, I decided to take the plunge and install KDE4 based on the
5 >> directions at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4.xml.
6 >>
7 >> The installation went well (with a re-install of qt4 due to a missing
8 >> use flag) and it was on to restarting the system so I could start
9 >> mucking with the new interface. And that's where I hit a snag.
10 >>
11 >> In the URL above, the directions say to change /etc/conf.d/xdm, the
12 >> DISPLAYMANAGER variable to kdm-4.0. Every time I tried that, I got just
13 >> xdm instead as a login screen and then, after log in, got my same KDE3.5
14 >> desktop. There are no other directions on this page, so now I don't
15 >> know where to go from here.
16 >>
17 >> What now?
18 >>
19 >>
20 >
21 > use kdm 3.5 for login. It really does not matter which one you use.
22 >
23 >
24 I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean?
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28 "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
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30 -Julius Caesar
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