070704 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I have been using KDE for a long long time.
> Suddenly it's not there any more.
> anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm.
> The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me
> that my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid and would be removed.
> Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session.
> My only choices seem to be fluxbox and failsafe.
> My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE
> that I found in the Gentoo docs.
You may have reasons for doing it this way, but I keep it much simpler.
I boot to a raw login prompt, login there, then enter 'startx'.
I have a file ~/.xinitrc ('dbus-launch' is to enable Epiphany) :
xscreensaver &
dbus-launch startkde
If I want (rarely) to start Fluxbox, I have another file ~/.xinitrc-fb :
xscreensaver &
fluxbox
which I copy 'cp .xinitrc-fb .xinitrc' (keeping a copy of the KDE version).
I don't use Kdm at all, thus avoiding the kind of problem you've run into
& which I too ran into a few years ago.
I recommend unmerging all your existing KDE material,
then remerging the latest 3.5.7 (which I've been using since 070610)
using whatever individual packages you need. Then keep it upto-date.
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