Few doubts about KDE

alblurrow · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 4:47 pm Post subject: Few doubts about KDE

Hi,

I've just installed Gentoo, and I have my KDE up and running, but I have this "problems":

1) I start kdm from root, but when I get the graphical login I cannot login with other user. Just root. If I try with another user, I get an ugly messege saying something about a widget. I have searched the forums and I haven't figured out why.

2) Is there a way to have multiple users loged in in kde on the same computer? I know that a computer can act as X-client, and have many remote X-sessions. But I would like to have the way XP has it.

3) If I'm listening music with xmms, and get messeges with kmess, i get all the sounds of kmess right after I stop xmms. How can I listen to them at the same time?

THANK YOU!!!

I hope not to be a duplicate thread!

Jeedo · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 4:50 pm Post subject:

1. dont do that, do

happypup · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject:

For # 3 search on arts and alsa and mabey oss there is a ton of reading I am currently digging myself
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scriptkiddie · l33t Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 955

#2) You cannot do this locally as far as I know
#3) try reading some of the documentation on how ALSA works... it works great for me all the time.. the only time I run into errors is with kernel 2.6 sometimes

BlackPhoenix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 124

#1, what that other person said
#2, many ways...easy way is to put the command to start kde (I think its startkde?) in that user's xsession's file, log that user and do a startx, then you can switch between the different sessions with ctrl+alt+F7, F8, etc

I might be wrong on a few details, im not on my Linux box now, but you get the idea...just start a new Xsession. You can also use a VNC server and client locally, thats cool too. And Gnome has by default a kind of program that let you create a new Xsession in a window from the current one...

#3 just use the XMMS arts plugin, problem solved.

alblurrow · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject: Thank you!

I've just emerged xmms-arts (it's masked) and now the sound works perfect!

Thank YOU!!!!

hook · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 3:27 pm Post subject:

2) Xnest ...nested X solves the problem, but don't ask me how ...i don't use it ...i just know it does
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