Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) [010909 15:51]: -> ->I suspect several of these problems are related to Xstart, Xreset, etc. ->Does anyone who's successfully installed KDE 2.2 tell me where the ->correct versions of those files can be found? ->
Well, this is the output I got.
(ben@zeus) ~> locate Xstart [17:42 01-09-09] /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup /opt/kde2/share/config/kdm.old/Xstartup (ben@zeus) ~> rpm -qf /opt/kde2/share/config/kdm.old/Xstartup [17:44 01-09-09] file /opt/kde2/share/config/kdm.old/Xstartup is not owned by any package zsh: 3557 exit 1 rpm -qf /opt/kde2/share/config/kdm.old/Xstartup (ben@zeus) ~> rpm -qf /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup [17:44 01-09-09] xf86-4.1.0-0 xf86-4.1.0-0
So I would suggest it is not a KDE problem..but an XFree problem. You could upgrade to 4.1.0.
I did know about those files in /etc/X11/xdm, Ben, and I've been running XFree4.1.0 for a while. The reasons I think it's a KDE problem is that (a) the files aren't in the place where KDE looks for them (/opt/kde2/share/config/kdm) and (b) using procedures written for xdm without modification in the kdm context seems risky; subtle differences may come back to haunt us in mysterious ways later on. I've been able to get on the air by copying the X* files from /etc/X11/xdm to /opt/kde2/share/config/kdm, but I'm not comfortable with that solution. I'm also puzzled as to why the KDE 2.2 packages from SuSE don't put the files in the right place, or how an unsophisticated user is supposed to discover the necessary repair. Paul