Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> I installed kde with emerge kde-base ... which brought in kde-libs and other
> stuff.
> 
> When I try to run it, it complains that xsetroot and other x... complain that
> display = '' and they die without starting the xserver (root or user
> environment).  Same restults with
>         startkde
>           or
>         echo kde >.wm
>         startx

Hmm, that sounds like your xfree installation has problems. It is really
strange that stuff works here and no other user reported such problems.
Try ebuild xfree-4.0.3-r3 clean unmerge merge.
> 
> By the way, in setting up users, I discovered that /etc/skel (not a file but
> an empty directory) is borken.
:) It's not broken, we don't have user specific templates for that dir
at the moment. The stuff in that dir
gets copied to the users homedir if you call useradd with the -m option.

bye achim~

> 
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