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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Purged gnome, lost X. :-(
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:57:06
Message-Id: 52D282F6.9070806@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Purged gnome, lost X. :-( by Peter Humphrey
1 On 12/01/2014 13:34, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Sunday 12 Jan 2014 10:11:22 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
3 >
4 >> No such luck, as yet. I still get these messages when trying to startx:
5 >>
6 >> xfce4-session: GNOME compatibility is enabled and gnome-keyring-daemon is
7 >> found on the system. Skipping gpg/ssh-agent startup. env: kdeinit4: No such
8 >> file or directory
9 >> env: qdbus: No such file or directory
10 >>
11 >> . Somehow, the remnants of a KDE program are hanging around somewhere.
12 >> I've no idea what qdbus is, or where I've got it configured.
13 >
14 > $ eix qtdbus
15 > [I] dev-qt/qtdbus (4.8.5(4){tbz2}@01/12/13): The DBus module for the Qt
16 > toolkit
17 >
18 > Have you got -qt4 in your USE flags? If not, I suggest you put it in make.conf
19 > and then emerge -uaDvN world.
20 >
21 > This may not help, but:
22 >
23 > $ grep -r kdeinit4 /etc
24 > Binary file /etc/ld.so.cache matches
25 >
26 > (That's the only occurrence I could find here on this KDE box.) So some library
27 > may still be lying around with KDE links.
28 >
29 > Something's nagging at the back of my mind about having to specify your
30 > desktop in a config file, maybe /etc/conf.d/xdm though my copy of that just says
31 > kdm.
32 >
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35 /etc/conf.d/xdm only specified the display manager to use. Individual
36 apps are then started by the display manager or the xsession. That of
37 course can be done in any way that dm or xsession feels like doing it so
38 it turns into quite a rabbit hole.
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42 --
43 Alan McKinnon
44 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Purged gnome, lost X. :-( Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>