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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:30:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5904619.GHPKET2qBK@pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201111121209.25799.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

Am Samstag, 12. November 2011, 12:09:23 schrieb Mick:
> On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 02:37:53 Lavender wrote:
> > >The problem is that X is not installed. to install X, edit
> > >/etc/make.conf and add VIDEO_CARDS="<your video card here>" and emerge
> > >xorg-server or emerge xorg-x11 to get X
> 
> How can it not be installed?  Wouldn't KDE pull in Xorg packages as
> dependencies?

No, not the server. Mind, X is a client-server architecture. It's perfectly 
valid to run kde-clients on a machine, that has no xserver installed.

Best,
Michael




  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-12 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-12  1:58 [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment Lavender
2011-11-12  2:13 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-12  2:15 ` James Wall
2011-11-12  2:35 ` Lavender
2011-11-12  2:37 ` Lavender
2011-11-12 12:09   ` Mick
2011-11-12 12:30     ` Michael Schreckenbauer [this message]
2011-11-12 19:25       ` Mick
2011-11-13  3:10       ` Lavender
2011-11-13  3:25         ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-13  8:03         ` Lavender
2011-11-13  8:23           ` Mick
2011-11-13  8:34           ` Lavender
2011-11-13  8:47             ` Mick
2011-11-13 12:05             ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-13 12:01           ` Neil Bothwick

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