Getting KDE4 working

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

As previously posted, trying to start kde4 yields a bunch of crashes, kcminit, 
plasma, etc., repeated knotify4 crashes.

I had a session running once by sudo /usr/bin/startkde, but the results were 
destructive--took some doing to get kde3.5 running after this.

For what might the kde4 startup sequence need root privileges and for what 
must it NOT be run with them?

I noticed that in the kde3.5, there is a start_kdeinit which has the suid bit 
set! There is no such thing in the kde4. Setting that bit in kde4's kdeinit4 
stuff started the session without crashes but nothing after the splash came 
up, just a blank screen.

I retried from an xterm and got warning that kde libraries are NOT designed to 
be run with suid set! Various other and sundry error messages and the startup 
was aborted.

I had to make the same "repairs" as before to restart kde3.5.