Can't boot into KDE4?

[dpeirce]

Help please. I searched in your wiki but it doesn't cover installing KDE. I searched in your forum but evidently no one else has had any problem. I've also googled it, and haven't found anything.

I installed Tinyme 2010 Acorn RC 1b in Virtualbox 3.1.16, and then installed KDE including kdm. But I'm unable to start KDE; Slim's options are Openbox, Openbox-KDE, and Openbox-Gnome.

1) Placed an .xinitrc file in /home/dave with 'startkde' in it. Didn't work.

2) /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc has /etc/X11/Xsession $*. I looked at Xsession but I'm not good enough with bash to try and do anything there. None of the other likely-looking (to me) files in X11, xdm, Xinit, or xinit.d seemed to have anything about choosing a window manager.

3) Tried Openbox-kde. Got a horribly crippled KDE. In control center, set window manager to KDM. Rebooted, slim came up again.

4) Deleted, then reinstalled kdm hoping to get a menu to set the window manager. No menu, opened in slim.

5) Started slim with 'failsafe', got a desktop with a terminal in upper left. Entered 'startkde', and got a KDE desktop with a terminal stuck in the upper left that I can't move; if I delete the term the KDE desktop goes with it.

6) Booted back into Openbox, got a root terminal, and tried 'xwmconfig' - error message is "command not found".

7) Deleted slim. Kdm login appeared, chose KDE, booted until almost there - then totally black screen with conky spread across the whole width of the top. Can't boot now even into Openbox.

8) Now I've reinstalled Tinyme, re-updated it, and done kde-task in smart. KDE4 is all installed. On reboot, it opens in slim.

How do I make it open in kdm? Or is there a slim config somewhere that I can add an option for a straight KDE? Is there a Tinyme howto anywhere for installing/using KDE4? Any help will be appreciated.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

[richardwest]

(04-27-2010 05:56 PM)dpeirce Wrote:  Help please. I searched in your wiki but it doesn't cover installing KDE. I searched in your forum but evidently no one else has had any problem. I've also googled it, and haven't found anything.

I installed Tinyme 2010 Acorn RC 1b in Virtualbox 3.1.16, and then installed KDE including kdm. But I'm unable to start KDE; Slim's options are Openbox, Openbox-KDE, and Openbox-Gnome.

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How do I make it open in kdm? Or is there a slim config somewhere that I can add an option for a straight KDE? Is there a Tinyme howto anywhere for installing/using KDE4? Any help will be appreciated.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

Have you tried the Control Centre?

Go to Boot then Set up Display Manager and choose KDM. You should then have the option when you reboot, of choosing KDE.

[dpeirce]

If you mean the KDE control Center, see #3 above. If the Openbox Control Center, it did the same thing: Booted KDE until at the last it went to a black screen, flashed a couple of times, then showed conky stretched across the top of the screen.

Conky isn't supposed to show on the KDE screen, no?

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

[richardwest]

(04-27-2010 08:05 PM)dpeirce Wrote:  If you mean the KDE control Center, see #3 above. If the Openbox Control Center, it did the same thing: Booted KDE until at the last it went to a black screen, flashed a couple of times, then showed conky stretched across the top of the screen.

Conky isn't supposed to show on the KDE screen, no?

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

Neither I mean the "Configure Your Computer" Control Centre. I'm sorry but I don't have a copy of Tinyme running at the moment so I can't tell you where to find it, but the Icon should be a blue monitor with a red spanner (wrench) at the bottom left.

Hope that helps.

[dpeirce]

No, now it won't boot into either KDE or Openbox.

Think I'll try Tinyme another time. Unity is fine, no problems; I'll stick with it for the present. Thanks anyway.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

[KDulcimer]

You need to go to the System/Unity Control Center--> Boot--> Set up display manager--> select KDM--> log out.