[gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot

[gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot

[Collins Richey]

I installed kde with emerge kde-base ... which brought in kde-libs and other
stuff.

When I try to run it, it complains that xsetroot and other x... complain that
display = '' and they die without starting the xserver (root or user
environment).  Same restults with
	startkde
	  or
	echo kde >.wm
	startx

By the way, in setting up users, I discovered that /etc/skel (not a file but
an empty directory) is borken.


-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
Sybil test system (reiserfs)

Re: [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot

[Achim Gottinger]

Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> I installed kde with emerge kde-base ... which brought in kde-libs and other
> stuff.
> 
> When I try to run it, it complains that xsetroot and other x... complain that
> display = '' and they die without starting the xserver (root or user
> environment).  Same restults with
>         startkde
>           or
>         echo kde >.wm
>         startx

Hmm, that sounds like your xfree installation has problems. It is really
strange that stuff works here and no other user reported such problems.
Try ebuild xfree-4.0.3-r3 clean unmerge merge.
> 
> By the way, in setting up users, I discovered that /etc/skel (not a file but
> an empty directory) is borken.
:) It's not broken, we don't have user specific templates for that dir
at the moment. The stuff in that dir
gets copied to the users homedir if you call useradd with the -m option.

bye achim~

> 
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> Collins Richey
> Denver Area
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> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 08 May 2001 05:26:27 +0200 AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
> > 
> > I installed kde with emerge kde-base ... which brought in kde-libs and other
> > stuff.
> > 
> > When I try to run it, it complains that xsetroot and other x... complain that
> > display = '' and they die without starting the xserver (root or user
> > environment).  Same restults with
> >         startkde
> >           or
> >         echo kde >.wm
> >         startx
> 
> Hmm, that sounds like your xfree installation has problems. It is really
> strange that stuff works here and no other user reported such problems.
> Try ebuild xfree-4.0.3-r3 clean unmerge merge.
> > 

done - no change in behavior.  Where does the $DISPLAY variable get set on a normal system (required by startkde)?


-- 
Collins Richey
temp setup on gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot

[michael nazaroff]

On Tuesday 08 May 2001 16:57, Karl Haines wrote:
>On Wednesday 09 May 2001 00:55, michael nazaroff wrote:
> > I have gentoo up and going, I wasn't really sure about the networking
> > setup so I reworked it and made hybred Mandrake gentoo network setup so 
>I
> > can use ifup and ifdown commands.  I really enjoy the package system 
>very
> > nice.
> >
> > Michael
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>What kind of loser does such a thing and then comes and talks about it from
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What kind of loser like ME, doesnt have his time set :)

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Hmm, hehe nah I just use crapy old hotmail for mailing list since it's kinda 
my public mailing address since it get so much other stuff.  Sorry to offend 
you :o( I'm just trying to make thing confortable for me.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot

[Karl Haines]

On Wednesday 09 May 2001 03:54, michael nazaroff wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 May 2001 16:57, Karl Haines wrote:
> >On Wednesday 09 May 2001 00:55, michael nazaroff wrote:
> > > I have gentoo up and going, I wasn't really sure about the networking
> > > setup so I reworked it and made hybred Mandrake gentoo network setup so
> >
> >I
> >
> > > can use ifup and ifdown commands.  I really enjoy the package system
> >
> >very
> >
> > > nice.
> > >
> > > Michael
> > > _________________________________________________________________
> > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > gentoo-dev mailing list
> > > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> > > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
> >
> >What kind of loser does such a thing and then comes and talks about it
> > from MSN Explorer?
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >gentoo-dev mailing list
> >gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> >http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
>
> What kind of loser like ME, doesnt have his time set :)
>
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
>
>
> Hmm, hehe nah I just use crapy old hotmail for mailing list since it's
> kinda my public mailing address since it get so much other stuff.  Sorry to
> offend you :o( I'm just trying to make thing confortable for me.
> _________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
>
>
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> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
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i feel bad now!
sorry
MS does offend me tho! :)
hehe

Re: [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot

[Achim Gottinger]

Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> I installed kde with emerge kde-base ... which brought in kde-libs and other
> stuff.
> 
> When I try to run it, it complains that xsetroot and other x... complain that
> display = '' and they die without starting the xserver (root or user
> environment).  Same restults with
>         startkde
>           or
>         echo kde >.wm
>         startx

You can not start kde with running startkde. Use echo kde21 > ~/.wm and
run startx
(startkde does not start X for you)

bye achim~

> 
> By the way, in setting up users, I discovered that /etc/skel (not a file but
> an empty directory) is borken.
> 
> --
> Collins Richey
> Denver Area
> Sybil test system (reiserfs)
> 
> _______________________________________________
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