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There is a probably a simple solution to this, but I'm a newbie coming from Gentoo & Debian.
I did a brand new installation of Arch on i686 hardware.
I entered "pacman -S plasma-meta" to install KDE Plasma
~.xinitrc has "startkde" as the only entry.
when I type "startx" I get a blank screen with working mouse pointer.
"ps ax" shows that X is running and lots of kde programs operating (kwin_X11, etc).
There are no errors in Xorg.log.
It looks like both X and plasma are running, but plasma is not connecting to my X session.
When I did a test install in a virtualbox VM, this worked fine.
Anybody suggest troubleshooting steps for me?
TIA!
Last edited by NerdWorld (2016-12-05 12:18:57)
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Update: I've done a bit more sleuthing and found 2 major pieces of information:
1. kdeinit5 is not able to open display ":0".
2. LXDE opens and works just fine.
I have concluded that KDE is just fundamentally broken. I've been a KDE fan since the late 1990's when I first ran it on a Redhat system. I've suffered through all the growing pains from 3.x to 4.x.
I __LOVE__ KDE, but it is now such a bloated, complicated beast that it is almost unusable. Try running modern KDE on anything but up-to-date hardware, and it slows to a crawl. Ugh!
I'm marking this problem as "solved", but it really pains me that KDE is so broken.
Last edited by NerdWorld (2016-12-05 14:57:34)
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