Re: [gentoo-user] Purged gnome, lost X. :-(

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Tom.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 04:23:55AM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:02:17 +0000
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:

> >     xfce4-session: GNOME compatibility is enabled and
> > gnome-keyring-daemon is found on the system. Skipping gpg/ssh-agent
> > startup. env: kdeinit4: No such file or directory

> So, eh, a mixture of XFCE, GNOME and KDE; what's going on here?

I started off (4 years ago) with xfce, found it was missing a feature I
wanted (being able to switch keyboard mappings with a mouse click), so I
switched to gnome.  At some stage, I emerged Umbrello (a UML program)
which pulled in a lot of KDE stuff.  Then I got fed up with the political
machinations with gnome, and moved back to xfce, which now has the
mouse-click keyboard changer.  With Gnome 3.8 moving to stable (and thus
threatening me with systemd, etc.) I had to purge gnome from my system.

Umbrello and KDE are now gone, but it seems a ghost of KDE remains
somewhere.  There's a ghost of gnome, too - when I startx, I still get
these messages on the screen:

    xfce4-session: GNOME compatibility is enabled and gnome-keyring-daemon is found on the system. Skipping gpg/ssh-agent startup.
    env: kdeinit4: No such file or directory
    env: qdbus: No such file or directory

.  

> You'll want to start with inspecting ~/.xinitrc; from there on, look
> into the configuration of both your session and X itself.

My ~/.xinitrc contains but a single line, "exec startxfce4".  It's not
obvious, from reading the man pages, where this mysterious configuration
is done.

> --
> With kind regards,

> Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
> Gentoo Developer

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).