[gentoo-ppc-user] Choosing a window manager (KDE)

[gentoo-ppc-user] Choosing a window manager (KDE)

[Eric Pretorious]

Hello, All:

I've read the Desktop Configuration Guide and have sucessfully installed 
kdebase. When I start kdm, though, I still get the spartan twm.

How do I go about selecting a window manager?

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Choosing a window manager (KDE)

[Eric Pretorious]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Marko Vallius wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Eric Pretorious wrote:
> > I've read the Desktop Configuration Guide and have sucessfully installed 
> > kdebase. When I start kdm, though, I still get the spartan twm.
> 
> Just to make sure: when you start kdm, you do get kdm first, don't you?
> Assuming you do, you should be able to select kde from the little
> drop-down list. The default is Xsession, which gives you just twm.

Ah-ha! I didn't see the drop-down list. Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Choosing a window manager (KDE)

[Joao F. Serejo]

KDM will read XDesktop environment from Xsession, Xauthority ... etc. if you really need to run kdm at start
you will need a bunch of files like ~/.xsession (yes with little x) copy of the original ../xdm/Xsession and
edit it to fill you needs for startup choosed window manager. SEE: twm sets and base the kdesession on it.

An easyer way is startx from console and you will need only to put 'exec $YOUSESSIONHERE' on to a file called
~/.xinitrc and that's done.

On 17:31 Thu 03 Jul     , Eric Pretorious wrote:
> Hello, All:
> 
> I've read the Desktop Configuration Guide and have sucessfully installed 
> kdebase. When I start kdm, though, I still get the spartan twm.
> 
> How do I go about selecting a window manager?
> 
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> Eric P.
> Sunnyvale, CA
> 
> 
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Sincerely, (com os mais sinceros cumprimentos);
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Choosing a window manager (KDE)

[Andrew Gaffney]

Joao F. Serejo wrote:
> KDM will read XDesktop environment from Xsession, Xauthority ... etc. if you really need to run kdm at start
> you will need a bunch of files like ~/.xsession (yes with little x) copy of the original ../xdm/Xsession and
> edit it to fill you needs for startup choosed window manager. SEE: twm sets and base the kdesession on it.
> 
> An easyer way is startx from console and you will need only to put 'exec $YOUSESSIONHERE' on to a file called
> ~/.xinitrc and that's done.
> 
> On 17:31 Thu 03 Jul     , Eric Pretorious wrote:
> 
>>Hello, All:
>>
>>I've read the Desktop Configuration Guide and have sucessfully installed 
>>kdebase. When I start kdm, though, I still get the spartan twm.
>>
>>How do I go about selecting a window manager?

There is a simple way to do this. In the file /etc/rc.conf, look for 
this at the end:


# Defaults depending on what you install currently include:
#
# Gnome - will start gnome-session
# kde-<version> - will start startkde (ex: kde-3.0.2)
# Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps

#XSESSION=Gnome


Uncomment the last line and change it to 'kde-<version>' as it says. 
Whenever you run startx or kdm, it should start up KDE.

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Choosing a window manager (KDE)

[Marko Vallius]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Eric Pretorious wrote:
> I've read the Desktop Configuration Guide and have sucessfully installed 
> kdebase. When I start kdm, though, I still get the spartan twm.

Just to make sure: when you start kdm, you do get kdm first, don't you?
Assuming you do, you should be able to select kde from the little
drop-down list. The default is Xsession, which gives you just twm.

If there is no drop-down list, it could be you are running xdm. Did you
remember to set DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm in your /etc/rc.conf?

If you get twm straight away without a login screen, then I guess you're
not starting any display manager... Are you using startx? What you get
with startx depends on what your XSESSION setting in /etc/rc.conf is
set to.

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