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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:26:40
Message-Id: 201111121925.30618.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment by Michael Schreckenbauer
1 On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 12:30:13 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
2 > Am Samstag, 12. November 2011, 12:09:23 schrieb Mick:
3 > > On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 02:37:53 Lavender wrote:
4 > > > >The problem is that X is not installed. to install X, edit
5 > > > >/etc/make.conf and add VIDEO_CARDS="<your video card here>" and emerge
6 > > > >xorg-server or emerge xorg-x11 to get X
7 > >
8 > > How can it not be installed? Wouldn't KDE pull in Xorg packages as
9 > > dependencies?
10 >
11 > No, not the server. Mind, X is a client-server architecture. It's perfectly
12 > valid to run kde-clients on a machine, that has no xserver installed.
13
14 Oh! My mistake. I thought that xorg-server would be pulled in by some X USE
15 flag or other.
16
17 --
18 Regards,
19 Mick

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