Re: Can't Start KDE

["Paul Cupis" <paul@cupis.co.uk>]

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On Sunday 22 February 2004 21:20, Robert Tilley <tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com> 
wrote:
> On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:26 pm, James Stark wrote:
> > > Needless to say, any help is most wecome.  How do you start kdm
> > > from the console?
> >
> > execute:
> >
> > /etc/init.d/kdm start
> >
> > as root.
>
> This will cause kdm to have root priveleges, will it not?  Is this
> good from a security standpoint?

Root privileges are required in order to run xfree86. The kdm initscript 
starts the X server.

To the OP: from a virtual console (command line), you can start kde 
directly by running:

  $ startx /usr/bin/kde3

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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