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Daiajo Tibdixious posted |
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<a4a9bfcb0601280121r303494fds74ebf107b9810280@××××××××××.com>, excerpted |
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below, on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:21:40 +1100: |
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> According to<br> |
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> <a |
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> href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml">http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.x</a><br> |
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> I only have to put DISPLAY_MANAGER="kdm" in /etc/rc.conf, |
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> which I have done:<br> |
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First, please kill the HTML. Many on mailing lists, particularly FLOSS |
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community lists, consider HTML posts comparable to sliming your hand with |
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snot and then offering to shake hands -- it's both rude and a good way to |
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spread viruses! |
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> $ grep DISPLAY /etc/rc.conf |
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> DISPLAY_MANAGER="kdm" and have xdm in the startup: |
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> $ /sbin/rc-update show xdm default | grep xdm |
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> xdm | default |
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> and kdm should start. |
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> However, xdm starts instead of kdm. |
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Are you sure kdm is merged? Note that there's now two ways to merge KDE, |
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as the split packages (kde-base/kdm) or as the monolithic ebuilds |
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(kde-base/kdebase includes it, I believe). If you merge the split |
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ebuilds, it will be pulled in as a dependency in some cases (I don't use |
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it here but have it for that reason), but perhaps you don't have it, for |
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some reason. |
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If it's merged, will it start from the (root) command line? It has been |
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awhile since I ran any of the ?dm things, so don't know if it should or |
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not, but in any case, you should be able to trace how the initscript |
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should start it (trace thru the scripts), and do likewise, if it won't |
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start from the command line directly. |
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What about logging? Have you tried checking your logs to see if it says |
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anything there? |
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> I have tried setting XSESSION in /etc/rc.conf to various values, however |
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> these all give X with no login manager and no kde. |
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As I said, I haven't used ?dm in ages, but I DO run KDE, from the command |
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line, using the XSESSION settings you mention. It works here, and has |
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since at least sometime in the KDE 3.3.x timeframe if not earlier. I'm |
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running 3.5.0 (~amd64) now. |
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1) Set XSESSION to the version you have merged. Therefore, I have: |
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XSESSION="kde-3.5" |
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2) Start KDE by issuing the "startx" command at the command line. |
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3) Actually, I have a little script that starts it, then exits the |
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session: |
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$cat /usr/local/bin/k |
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#!/bin/bash |
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startx & |
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disown -a |
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sleep 30 |
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exit 0 |
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Of course, /usr/local/bin is in my path, so I start it like this: |
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. k |
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Of course, the dot indicates source the following script in the same |
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shell, and the & after startx runs that command in the background, so the |
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result is that X is started (with the assigned XSESSION, so KDE) then the |
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startx process disowned, a 30-second sleep to make sure things are going |
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OK, then it logs me out of the terminal. |
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If I'm troubleshooting something, I'll simply run k without sourcing it, |
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so it'll leave me logged in and I can continue what I was doing on the |
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command line. |
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> I had kdm running find under 2004.3, it stopped working when I upgraded |
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> to 2005.0 (as did many other things, |
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> everything is now fixed except this). I have to be missing something |
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> obvious, I can find no more in the documentation. I'm running kde 3.4.3 |
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> I'm going to go thru the xdm startup to try to figure this out, which |
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> will take a while, |
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> I just wonder if anyone can spot the flaw straight away? |
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I gave up on ?dm back when I was on Mandrake. It quit working at some |
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point and I couldn't get it working right away, so I just left it and |
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began starting KDE directly from the command line. That worked, and soon |
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I decided I liked that better than the graphical login anyway, |
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particularly when I'm working from the command line anyway and don't want |
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to wait for X and KDE to come up (if it's not X or KDE that I'm |
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troubleshooting because they /won't/ come up). From my experience, it's |
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just a whole lot more robust to end up at the command line, than to try to |
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boot to X/KDE, and doing that from startx is more robust than ?dm, as |
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well. If I want KDE, I can then login and start it. There's nothing wrong |
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with ?dm. It's just not my preferred way of working any more. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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