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From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot
Date: Thu May 10 00:50:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AFA3322.887A0F8F@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010507215023.2396e7be.erichey2@home.com

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-10  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-07 21:43 [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot Collins Richey
2001-05-07 21:56 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-05-08  5:15   ` Collins Richey
2001-05-10  0:50 ` Achim Gottinger [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-09  2:56 michael nazaroff
2001-05-09  6:36 ` Karl Haines

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