2008/5/28 Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>:

> Well, I decided to take the plunge and install KDE4 based on the directions
> at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4.xml.
>
> The installation went well (with a re-install of qt4 due to a missing use
> flag) and it was on to restarting the system so I could start mucking with
> the new interface.  And that's where I hit a snag.
>
> In the URL above, the directions say to change /etc/conf.d/xdm, the
> DISPLAYMANAGER variable to kdm-4.0.  Every time I tried that, I got just xdm
> instead as a login screen and then, after log in, got my same KDE3.5
> desktop.  There are no other directions on this page, so now I don't know
> where to go from here.
>
> What now?
>
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you have to add the DYSPLAYMANAGER=kdm-4.0 to a file in /etc/env.d/ better
the local environment file, then BE SURE to have installed the following:
kdebase-startkde-4.0.x and kdebase-meta-4.0.x. after that remember to do an
etc-update (or dispatch-conf or whatever utility you use for updating the
/etc) and then do an env-update and a /etc/init.d/xdm restart. also you
should look if xdm has been overwritten (it has to be since)  and if i
remember well also /etc/conf.d/xdm.conf also has changed. then at kdm login
screen select the session type and login. it should work. but e aware that
if you're on xorg-server from git kde4 will most likely don't work.

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