Re: kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid
OK. This corrects at least part of the problem with KDM.
Another problem with kcontrol: I cannot enable a password-less login
(home machine).
I don't think the preferences menu show up on the Kmenu unless you have
used it before ? It is not showing up on the root account. Of all
accounts, root should be able to run kcontrol.
I sure hope xmms gets fixed sooner rather than later.
thanks for the info.
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:43, James Stark wrote:
> > 1) kdm does not work. The symptoms appear to be Xauthority related.
> > There is a temporary Xauthority file getting created in
> > /var/run/xauth/. After logging into kde using the kdm front end, the
> > system just does nothing. Nothing appears to be running inside of X. I
> > can get out with a cntrl-alt-backspace.
>
> Make sure that you told KDM to load KDE. The first time I logged in it loaded
> twm. The option for which environment to load is hiding in the menu.
>
> > 3) There is not kcontrol icon in the Kmenu. I had to add this by hand.
> > YOu just about have to have kcontrol !
>
> There is actually an icon for it at the top of the preferences menu, which
> isn't enabled by default. Having an icon in the system menu would be nice
> though.
>
> > 4) My xmms-arts package had to be removed, so I have problems running
> > xmms under kde3.2 using the arts sound server.
>
> Read the link below for a full description of what's going on with xmms-arts.
> The short version is that xmms and KDE 3.2 use incompatible versions of glib.
> So don't expect this to be fixed anytime soon.
>
> http://www.xmms.org/plugins.php?details=22
>
> James
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