startkde

klacke · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 36 Location: Stockholm

Having some problems to startkde.

> cat ~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/bash

test -r $HOME/.Xmodmap && xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap
test -r $HOME/.Xdefaults && xrdb -I$HOME -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
exec startkde

It starts, but just gives me a grey screen.
No error printouts whatsoever.

Any clues ... anybody

/klacke

masseya · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 10:17 pm Post subject:

Do you have any errors logged to be found from your system logger?
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klacke · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 36 Location: Stockholm

Zero,

syslog is empty. Well not empty :-), but no messages that appear
to have anything to do with this (odd and never seen by me before)
behaviour.

I'm not a kde user myself, but my kids don't like to run blackbox
and .... well ehhum, they want me to fix this.

I tried to emerge sync + remerge kde, and that went fine. Still got
the same grey(ish) screen behaviour.

Odd ... will continue to investigate

/klacke

XL-Reaper · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 50

sounds like tehres something wrong with your desktopmanager variable.
afaik the "grey screen only" happens when x can´t find the desktomanager you told it to start

Evil Dark Archon · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 7:01 pm Post subject:

make sure that /usr/kde/3.1/bin (if you are running kde 3.1 or higher) or /usr/kde/3.0/bin (if you are using the old version of kde) is in your $PATH

klacke · n00b Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 36 Location: Stockholm

Having it in the path is pretty obvious advice ehhh :-;

Anyway, it seems to be the XSESSION environment var that
does the trick. /etc/rc.conf has a blurb about the variable,

Kde did indeed start from xdm, but I don't really want to
run [xk]dm. Anyway, thanks to the poster who mentioned the
desktopmanager variable, It's called $DISPLAYMANAGER and is
also set it /etc/rc.conf Kinda weird, but now that I've seen how it
works, it;'s ok.

Cheers