kde 3.1 --How to start????

jbradley · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 9

I have kde 3.1.1a as well as kde 3.0.4 emerged, and can't seem to find what I need to do to get gentoo to run kde 3.1. I've changed the parameters in rc.conf, and despite what XSESSION is set to, kde-3.0.4 is what's started each time.

yowwww · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 2:45 am Post subject:

at runlevel 3 type

[UK]Superdude · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 5:48 am Post subject:

in your .xinitrc file in your home dir, you can qualify the whole path for kde 3.1 like:

.xinitrc

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

If you want it at boot simply edit rc.conf and set 'DISPLAYMANAGER="KDM"', then add xdm to the default runlevel:

jbradley · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 9

Thanks for the suggestions, but even when I select 3.1 (3.1.1a) with KDM, when the KDE desktop starts loading, the 3.0 display is what gets started. That display doesn't function entirely normally unless I've selected 3.0. With 3.1 selected, the 3.0 desktop comes up, but error messages (unable to create io-slave; unable to find service ...;) occur when attempting to run anything. I haven't yet tried the unmerge.

kappax · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:10 pm Post subject:

un emerge kde 3.0
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Plaz · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 2:28 am Post subject:

I had this exact problem as well. The unmerge will probably do the trick, but if I remember correctly, the problem had something to do with the KDEDIRS environment variable which probably exists in your /etc/profile.env and/or /etc/csh.env.

I think I just removed that variable from the relevant file in /etc/env.d and then rebuilt the two files mentioned above and the problem went away. I don't run the KDE 3.0 stuff any longer, so that may now be broken for me, but at least 3.1 works fine again.