Hello, I have upgraded to KDE3 on my SuSE 7.2 laptop, resulting in many problems. First of all KDM is not able to start KDE anymore. Seemingly it can't find it's configuration, because all options have default settings. After login I only get a single xterm without any windowmanager. If I give the command 'startkde' in this window I get KDE up and running (but no sound). If I try to configure KDM through the konfiguration module none of my changes seem to "take", i.e. they are not saved. Any ideas, anyone? /Lennart !++ ! Lennart Börjeson ! Cinnober Financial Technology AB ! Industrigatan 2A ! S-11246 Stockholm ! Sverige/Sweden/Schweden/Suède ! tel: +46-8-50304717 ! gsm: +46-70-3394717 ! mailto:lennart.borjeson@cinnober.com !--
* Lennart Börjeson
Hello,
I have upgraded to KDE3 on my SuSE 7.2 laptop, resulting in many problems.
First of all KDM is not able to start KDE anymore. Seemingly it can't find it's configuration, because all options have default settings. After login I only get a single xterm without any windowmanager.
If I give the command 'startkde' in this window I get KDE up and running (but no sound). If I try to configure KDM through the konfiguration module none of my changes seem to "take", i.e. they are not saved.
Any ideas, anyone?
First off I would suggest asking on suse-kde@suse.com. A new list devoted to KDE questions. -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:04:35PM +0200, Lennart Börjeson wrote: -> Hello, -> -> I have upgraded to KDE3 on my SuSE 7.2 laptop, -> resulting in many problems. -> -> First of all KDM is not able to start KDE anymore. Seemingly -> it can't find it's configuration, because all options have default -> settings. After login I only get a single xterm without any -> windowmanager. -> -> If I give the command 'startkde' in this window I get KDE up and running -> (but no sound). If I try to configure KDM through the konfiguration -> module none of my changes seem to "take", i.e. they are not saved. -> -> Any ideas, anyone? No ideas, but the same symptoms here. I've been using startx from a character mode shell and that works fine, and since I'm going to upgrade to SuSE 8.0 as soon as it arrives I figured I could live with it until then. But I've been all over my system looking for kdmrc files and none of the ones found explain the behavior of the kde3 kdm I see... same as you, everything is set to defaults, you try to change it with kcontrol and it appears to have no effect at all. Michael -- Michael Nelson San Francisco, CA
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:04:35PM +0200, Lennart Börjeson wrote: -> Hello, -> -> I have upgraded to KDE3 on my SuSE 7.2 laptop, -> resulting in many problems. -> -> First of all KDM is not able to start KDE anymore. Seemingly -> it can't find it's configuration, because all options have default -> settings. After login I only get a single xterm without any -> windowmanager. -> -> If I give the command 'startkde' in this window I get KDE up and running -> (but no sound). If I try to configure KDM through the konfiguration -> module none of my changes seem to "take", i.e. they are not saved. -> -> Any ideas, anyone?
No ideas, but the same symptoms here. I've been using startx from a character mode shell and that works fine, and since I'm going to upgrade to SuSE 8.0 as soon as it arrives I figured I could live with it until then.
But I've been all over my system looking for kdmrc files and none of the ones found explain the behavior of the kde3 kdm I see... same as you, everything is set to defaults, you try to change it with kcontrol and it appears to have no effect at all.
Michael
I have posted the solution to this before ( SuSE 7.3 ) mkdir /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm ln -s /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc ln -s /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess edit the files in /etc/SuSEconfig and change: qt2 -> qt3 kde2 -> kde3 edit /etc/init.d/xdm, change: kde2 -> kde3 Add kde3 to /usr/X11R6/bin/wmlist Add kde3 to the sessionlist in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Add kde3 to /etc/ld.so.conf run ldconfig run rcxdm start - -- This mail is sent using KMail and Linux. Thus it is 100% guaranteed virus free. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8vFLG6mRH+PEpr2YRAhmJAJ9XVBUqehO8VxmvVscktXM43CftdQCfUit1 6FA6RbCCDiFZPJGZ5tJ6Btc= =PkLQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On April 16, 2002 23:35, Tor Sigurdsson wrote: [snip]
I have posted the solution to this before ( SuSE 7.3 )
mkdir /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm ln -s /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc ln -s /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess
edit the files in /etc/SuSEconfig and change:
qt2 -> qt3 kde2 -> kde3
edit /etc/init.d/xdm, change:
kde2 -> kde3
Add kde3 to /usr/X11R6/bin/wmlist
Add kde3 to the sessionlist in /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
Add kde3 to /etc/ld.so.conf
run ldconfig
run rcxdm start
Hi, Thanks, Tor, for this guide. I have done it all. I'm booting into kdm3 now. However kdm (3) is still not accepting all configurations: I can configure: - Greeting message, text and font - Display logo, yes or no - Display users I can configure, and it is stored in kdmrc, but ignored: - the background image (it displays just a grey screen with Suse Linux written on top, quite ugly). - display clock instead of logo (leaves the small box for the logo/clock just empty). It definitely does start kdm3, I even made kdm2 unexecutable / unreadable. I guess the grey screen is not coming from xdm, it is the same grey, but the "SuSE Linux" on it is not the same, as when I start xdm (as root) directly. I'm running Suse 7.2, Mantel kernel 2.4.17, X4.2, and the kde3 from kde.org. Anyone knows what to do? The grey background is just terribly ugly, not a good start for the day. Otherwise I really like kde3. It is fast, stable and looks great. Thanks, Matt T.
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