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Hi,
I m new to AL.
I installed 0.5 base system and reboot the computer. Everything worked perfect. After the boot up I decieded to install Xfree and kde so as described on the official faq I added the "server=local:///mnt/cd" line to pacman.conf and then I run pacman -Sy kdebase kdelibs again as described on faq. The installation from cd finished without error, pacman also ?nstalled (as expected) xfree86. I logout and login. After then I changed my /.x?n?trc file as described on the faq. Finally I typed startx. The command returned an error saying that the configuration file was not found.
Help please, I really want to try this distro.
-> you have not configured the X-Server.
(-> we should write this note to the FAQ or somewhere in the DOCS :::
FAQ:
Q: How to configure the X-Server)
A: Run
xf86config
(i think you must be root, but i'm not sure, because for long i didnt installed linux from the begining)
-> you'll need the knowledge of your monitor, graphics card, and mouse
-> this tool will write the file /etc/X11/XF86Config
if you already have a linux, that works and the X-Server is already configured there, you can copy this file ... this way is much faster :-)
a nice link about this:
http://www.luv.asn.au/overheads/xconfig/
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or just run configure -X (or that may be the other way around) this will run a basic scan and write a dummy configuration file to your root home which you can then modify and then copy to the proper place and with the proper name.
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Hi,
Thanks for your help.
I could conf?gure X now when i type startx I can start X. But kde still did not start. I changed the xinitrc file but when I type startx twm is strating instead of kde. When I type startkde it returns cannot connect to X server. But I could start kde from Xterm from twm (and now Im writing from kde which runs on x term.
Can someone help me please.
to be sure, in your .xinitrc you typed:
exec startkde
correct?
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yes it is ok I controlled the initrc several times. What I think is wrong is that the startx command does not execute the initrc and I dont know why and how to fix it
here my /home/user/.xinitrc so you can compare:
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#
tpb --daemon # Thinkpad Buttons ... you dont need this
export TERM=xterm # here the TERM is set
# exec wmaker
startkde # here startkde is run (it works also without exec)
# exec icewm
# exec blackbox
# exec fluxbox
-> make sure you dont try to run KDE as root, as this maybe will not work, because the /opt/kde/bin is not set as PATH for root
-> can you post the error 1:1 as "code" here ... maybe i can see then better where the error happens
-> try to run e.g. icewm ... if this works, then i think the ~/.xinitrc is set correctly and the error must be in PATH to startkde or somewhere in the config for kde
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thanks all
it works now. I just forget to copy the xinitrc to the user directory so now it works and it is incredibly fast. I think I will love to be an archer.
Thanks to all and Hi to whole community
no problem. glad we could get it all working for you.
so you know...i think if your user profile had been made as described in the install guide:
# useradd -m -s /bin/bash johndoe
# passwd johndoe
this should have created a .xinitrc file for you in your ~/ (it did with 0.3 and 0.4 as i recall)
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