Re: Getting KDE up and running.
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 MallarJ@aol.com wrote:
> > Put startkde in the first line of /etc/X11/window-managers.
>
> This just flat out doesn't work. I get my kdm window, log in, and then it
> looks like kdm shuts down and restarts - I get a flash of windows and then
> another kdm login screen. Are you sure that putting a script in the window-
> managers file will work? Mine doesn't seem to.
Yes, it will work. Look in your startkde script and make sure that the
call to kwm is NOT in the background (i.e. does not have an '&' after it).
The way the Xsession scripts work is that when the script terminates
(completes), then the X session is killed and the login screen is
displayed again. So you need to have one program that is not running in
the background, typically the window manager. When the window manager
exits, then the script is able to continue and the user is logged out.
> > kfm is the file manager. It provides the "desktop" functionality.
> > kfmclient is the thing that creates the file manager's windows for you to
> > use.
>
> I dislike the file manager functions of kfm - do you know of a way to get the
> desktop to work without starting the file manager as well?
I believe you are saying that you dislike the functions of kfmclient, not
kfm. You don't need to use kfmclient if you don't want to. You can use
tkdesk or X-Plorer or whatever you want to browse directories and manage
your files. I don't think you can get KDE to launch anything other than
kfmclient when you click on the icons on your desktop, though. I could be
wrong.
noah
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