X-system and KDE problems
My debian etcg 32bit has experienced twice an X-system failure to start
following
#apt-get upgrade
In both cases recovered, though error messages are presented.
The X-system is first started alone with
$startx
with /home/me/.Xsession
#!/bin/sh
xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources
exec xterm
whereby a window manager is opened that looks like twm;
With the alternative script
#!/bin/sh
xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources
xterm &
exec mwn
no X-system, although
#update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
shows mwm starred (the alternative kwin is preceded by a curious dot; no trace
of twm; may it be that both mwm and kwin are started? actually I do not see
any trace of mwm on commanding
#ps -eaf
but, see below, at some stage mwm is really started.
Commanding from the pseudo twm window above
$startkde
a mwm window manager is opened, reporting:
xset: bad font path element (#162), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or synthax
Start kde: Start up..
buidsycoca running..
kdecore (KlibLoader): WARNING: Klibrary: /usr/lib/kd3/kcm_kdnssd.so: undefined
symbol: int_kdnssd
KWriter - Listening on device /dev/pts/1
KDE works fully, but a strive to getting mwm window manager (here are
experiments only in view of getting that on the 64bit workstation, where I
can not yet experiment because OpenMotif is not available.
Should you understand how to do with the 32bit system, please help.
cheers
francesco pietra
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