Am Freitag, 20. November 2015, 20:25:59 schrieb Werner Flamme:
So I switch to tty6 via Ctrl-Alt-F6, log in here, and start my GUI via "startx", not with "startkde". And startx does not start anything graphical, but breaks down telling me that /usr/bin/krandrstartup is missing.
startx starts an X session. OTOH startkde starts the KDE desktop and has to be run in an existing X session. startx takes the command to run from the environment variable $WINDOWMANAGER (if you run it without arguments). To what is this set? But startx cannot be run as user at all with the default setup.
I started the thread on November 19, so that was the day I did the last updates.
And since then you cannot login to KDE?
I installed krandr. Felix Miata proposed that in <56332B7A.2060802@earthlink.net> on October, 30.
AFAIK Felix Miata uses/used KDE4. And for that you do need krandrstartup.
# rpm -qf $(which startkde) plasma5-workspace-5.4.2-2.1.x86_64
Ok, so you have Plasma5 installed. But is the startkde unmodified? rpm -V plasma5-workspace
startkde, started on tty6, gives me $DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server.
As written before, you can only run startkde inside an already existing X session.
The problem you described can only happen if you locked kdebase4-workspace and actively blocked the installation of Plasma5.
Obviously, it can occur under other circumstances too.
No. Plasma5's startkde does *not* (and never did) use or need krandrstartup. If it would, all fresh Tumbleweed and Leap installations would be broken, as krandrstartup doesn't exist there. If your startkde tries to run krandrstartup, you somehow use the KDE4 version, i.e. your installation is/was broken. Btw, I did fix KDE4's kscreen a month ago, but completely forgot about it (and I haven't noticed upto now that it actually has been removed from Factory). I can submit the fixed package to KDE:Distro:Factory, but I don't know what the maintainers would think about adding it back to Factory/Tumbleweed... Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org