Re: task-kde and no panel?
Thanks and sorry. I think I've read something similiar in previous posts but
I thought it was unrelated.
Jesse
On Monday 18 December 2000 13:09, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > For some reason the panel (I think this is what it's called, the thing on
> > the bottom with the big 'K' on it ;-) is not loading. After reviewing
> > the output of dpkg --get-selections (which I have attached) I noticed
> > kpanel is not installed. I tried installing it but got the error that it
> > "Can't find package kpanel." I ftp'ed over to kde.tdyc.com and looked
> > into
> > /debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz and couldn't find any
> > reference to kpanel. Has the package name changed or am I in between
> > uploads to the server?
> >
> >
> > One other thing I've noticed is that on starting KDE2 the splash screens
> > are missing. I do have a working install of KDE2 on my laptop which I'm
> > writing this email from. I tried comparing the differences between the
> > two but figured I'd try you guys to see if this is an easy fix I'm just
> > overlooking:-).
>
> When you start kde2 your not using /usr/bin/kde2...your using /usr/bin/kwm
> which only starts kwin and kdekstop...this is by design (to conform to
> policy) and will actually be going totally away.
>
> best solution is to create a ~/.xsession file with
>
> exec /usr/bin/kde2
>
> in it.
>
> Ivan
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