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070704 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I have been using KDE for a long long time. |
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> Suddenly it's not there any more. |
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> anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm. |
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> The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me |
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> that my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid and would be removed. |
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> Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session. |
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> My only choices seem to be fluxbox and failsafe. |
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> My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE |
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> that I found in the Gentoo docs. |
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You may have reasons for doing it this way, but I keep it much simpler. |
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I boot to a raw login prompt, login there, then enter 'startx'. |
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I have a file ~/.xinitrc ('dbus-launch' is to enable Epiphany) : |
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xscreensaver & |
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dbus-launch startkde |
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If I want (rarely) to start Fluxbox, I have another file ~/.xinitrc-fb : |
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xscreensaver & |
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fluxbox |
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which I copy 'cp .xinitrc-fb .xinitrc' (keeping a copy of the KDE version). |
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I don't use Kdm at all, thus avoiding the kind of problem you've run into |
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& which I too ran into a few years ago. |
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I recommend unmerging all your existing KDE material, |
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then remerging the latest 3.5.7 (which I've been using since 070610) |
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using whatever individual packages you need. Then keep it upto-date. |
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