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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE won't start up....
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:51:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <je273g$hqb$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0486B5.8030509@wht.com.au>

On 01/04/2012 09:04 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> I can start up bog standard X via "startx" and the mouse and keyboard
> work but I can't get KDE to start.

Does startx give you the twm session with some xterms and an xclock?
If so, try running 'startkde' from an xterm.  (Or whatever may have
replaced startkde since I looked last.)

Running revdep-rebuild is a good idea after every update, too.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-04 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-04 17:04 [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up Andrew Lowe
2012-01-04 17:13 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-04 17:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-01-04 18:59   ` YoYo Siska
2012-01-05  0:07     ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-04 18:51 ` walt [this message]
2012-01-05  3:26   ` [gentoo-user] " Andrew Lowe
2012-01-05 14:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster

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