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drtebi

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Registered: 2013-02-09

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How to start kuiserver5 on startup? [SOLVED]

Hello,

I am running the Enlightenment desktop, with Dolphin as my file manager.

Recently my copy/paste progress dialog disappeared. When starting Dolphin from the command line, it complained that kuiserver wasn't running.

I started kuiserver5, and the copy/paste dialog is back... so having kuiserver5 running seems to solve this issue.

But I wonder now, what is the best way to start kuiserver5? Should I write a unit file and start it with systemd? Or simply put it into my login script?

Last edited by drtebi (2018-12-24 01:08:19)

Trilby

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Re: How to start kuiserver5 on startup? [SOLVED]

There is a dbus-activated service file for kuiserver5.  It should not need to be started manually.  If it is not being started, there is likely a problem with your dbus session.  How do you start X?

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drtebi

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Re: How to start kuiserver5 on startup? [SOLVED]

I am using ~/.xinitrc with:

exec enlightenment_start

What is the name of the dbus service? I have dbus.service running. When I check its status, it does not list kuiserver5.

Slithery

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Re: How to start kuiserver5 on startup? [SOLVED]

Your ~/.xinitrc is incomplete. Read the xinit wiki page and fix it.

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drtebi

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Re: How to start kuiserver5 on startup? [SOLVED]

Your ~/.xinitrc is incomplete. Read the xinit wiki page and fix it.

Thanks, I did. But I don't see what I am missing?

Maybe I should add that I have auto-login configured. So in my ~/.bash_profile script, I have:

#
# Auto-login to Enlightenment
#
# This will execute startx, which in turn will execute
# what is defined in ~/.xinitrc
if [[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]]; then
    exec startx  # do NOT use enlightenment_start here!
fi

I cannot see from the xinit page what I may be doing wrong...
Maybe I should have included the configuration settings in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc in ~/.xinitrc?

drtebi

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Registered: 2013-02-09

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Re: How to start kuiserver5 on startup? [SOLVED]

So.... I am missing this:

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

?
That would make sense... I guess?

drtebi

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Re: How to start kuiserver5 on startup? [SOLVED]

OK, got it now... I should copy the file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc, and make appropriate changes to start my desktop manager.

I guess I overlooked the "cp" when I originally set up my desktop environment

Thanks for your help.