Re: how NOT to work with debian

[Damien Solley <dsolley@student.usyd.edu.au>]

Yes, it seems kde is not installed. startkde should work. 
Perhaps you should rerun apt-get and see if you can install kde?
	apt-get install kdebase
Perhaps there is a problem with the installation? Maybe even run: 
	apt-get install kdebase --reinstall

Otherwise, you could (if desperate) just use a window manager and an
xterm (it's very light, starts up fast!). If you know the name of the
programs you run (eg mozilla, konqueror) they can be started manually. 
To do this, your .xinitrc should read: 
	#a window manager: may need to apt-get one? eg:
	sawfish&
	#And your xterm (when closed, X session will finish)
	xterm
Note the & after your wm name. Now you can manually start programs like
so: 
	mozilla&

Any problems reinstalling kde, keep mailing.

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 10:32, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Monday 11 August 2003 4:11 am, Damien Solley wrote:
> > Looks like X is running fine. You just need a window manager other than
> > twm!
> > from a console, edit your ~/.xinitrc file. For simplicity, this file can
> > have just one line, reading:
> > 	startkde
> 
> That fails - command not found
> 
> >
> > That'll start kde (if it's installed correctly). Otherwise you can
> > specify:
> > gnome-session #(To start gnome 2)
> 
> that fails - command not found.  Not that I am really sad about that: I never 
> have got on with Gnome.
> 
> > xterm	#(to start an xterm)
> 
> That works.  I think.  Never used it before.  It opens a big grey screen with 
> a little white terminal widow containing an active and operational shell.  
> Also the mouse is working.  I expect that is the correct operation.
> 
> So it is KDE that is incorrectly installed or configured?
> 
> -- 
> richard
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Damien Solley
dsolley@student.usyd.edu.au