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#1 2006-10-31 08:50:19
- jyrihovila
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Basic KDE installation messed up
Hi!
I've only used Arch Linux for couple of days, so please forgive me for this newbieness. 
I installed xorg (using Pacman), configured and started it successfully. It worked perfectly; all the classic X stuff (twm, xclock and xterm) started nicely.
I then installed KDE by doing "pacman -Sy kde", commented "twm &" out from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, and added "/opt/kde/bin/startkde" instead.
When I start X (by doing startx), I do get a clean looking KDE desktop with Arch Linux desktop image, but:
- The K menu is almost empty. No applications there, even though Pacman installed all sorts of stuff such as kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdegames etc.
- If I click on any of the (three) icons on desktop, KDE asks me which application I want to use to open the file. Meaning the links don't work as they should.
- The same happens if I click Settings => Control Center from the K menu. Or any other K menu item, except for Lock Session or Log Out; those two work.
I seem to be stuck here. Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!
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#2 2006-10-31 13:06:01
- pressh
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Re: Basic KDE installation messed up
you did log out and back in before starting kde ?
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#3 2006-10-31 13:10:13
- chrismortimore
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Re: Basic KDE installation messed up
Is your /home partition new (ie, you formatted it when you installed Arch), or is it left over from a previous distribution?
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#4 2006-10-31 13:42:40
- jyrihovila
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Re: Basic KDE installation messed up
Hi!
Is your /home partition new (ie, you formatted it when you installed Arch), or is it left over from a previous distribution?
It's new - this is my very first installation of Arch Linux. 
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#5 2006-10-31 13:44:00
- jyrihovila
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Re: Basic KDE installation messed up
Hi!
you did log out and back in before starting kde ?
Yeps, I did. Tried it again; no effect. 
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#6 2006-10-31 14:33:58
- byte
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Re: Basic KDE installation messed up
You are not supposed to edit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, just edit ~/.xinitrc.
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#7 2006-10-31 16:54:15
- jyrihovila
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Re: Basic KDE installation messed up
Hi!
You are not supposed to edit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, just edit ~/.xinitrc.
I removed all the changes I made to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, and created ~/.xinitrc with just one line: startkde. Unfortunately it didn't help; the problem still remains.
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#8 2006-10-31 17:28:04
- japetto
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Re: Basic KDE installation messed up
Hmmm. Perhaps a path issue?
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#9 2006-10-31 17:59:57
- jyrihovila
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Re: Basic KDE installation messed up
Hi,
the problem got solved just by re-installing KDE.
The weird part is that I also tried installing Gnome yesterday, and it had exactly the same problem. Perhaps there was something wrong with Pacman repository..?
Anyway, problem solved.
Thanks everyone!
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#10 2006-10-31 18:36:36
- byte
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Re: Basic KDE installation messed up
You created .xinitrc? It should've been already there and the only thing to do is commenting "exec wmaker" and uncommenting "exec startkde".
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