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From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xfce & kde on gentoo
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 06:36:40
Message-Id: 3AFA847C.80E3FC2A@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] xfce & kde on gentoo by Collins Richey
1 Collins Richey wrote:
2 >
3 > I've figured out part of the problem about why xfce and/or kde won't run on normal users, but a few pieces are still missing.
4 >
5 > 1) either you set up bad persmissions on the snapshot I downloaded or the alternate procedure for unpacking the snapshot did not retain all permissions.
6 >
7 > 2) I've done the following, and things work better now
8 > chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp
9 hrm, i have 1777 /tmp and 1755 /var/tmp here
10 > chmod 666 /dev/null
11 that's what I have here too.
12
13 I checked the build snapshot found the same permissions as mine.
14
15 >
16 > 3) now I can run xfce and the icons are clickable, sylpheed and konqueror will come up as normal user under xfce, but there's still some pesky permission missing, because neither can reach the network (dns doesn't work). What permission is wrong that prevents this?
17
18 things still get stranger. I have no idea, it works as root but not as a
19 normal user?
20
21 >
22 > 4) Even if I echo kde21 >.wm, startx brings up xfce (root or normal user). How do I get kde to run? I still can't get kde to start as the window manager.
23
24 ~/.wm gets only used if there is no .xinitrc. If it still does not work
25 check if you have /usr/X11R6/bin/wm/kde21. If not reinstall the kde-env
26 package.
27
28 bye achim~
29
30 >
31 > TIA
32 > --
33 > Collins Richey
34 > temp setup on gentoo
35 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfce & kde on gentoo Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>