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tom8658

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Registered: 2006-01-27

Posts: 18

installing KDE

I installed KDE with pacman -S kde, which installed kdebase, kde-common, etc. But when I go to start it with startkde, the desktop comes up fine, and it displays the configuration wizrd to set language and theme.

Once KDE is done loading, nothing works. There is nothing in the K menu except the System Configuration icon, and when I click that, nothing happens. When I go to logout, it crashes.

Is there something missing that I need to install, or are there some directories that I need to add to my path? This is my first KDE install, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: installing KDE

You should start kde by putting:
exec startkde
in your ~/.xinitrc
And then run
$ startx
to start the x-server and kde.

tom8658

Member

Registered: 2006-01-27

Posts: 18

Re: installing KDE

You should start kde by putting:
exec startkde
in your ~/.xinitrc
And then run
$ startx
to start the x-server and kde.

I did. I'm sorry, I should have made myself clearer. It won't come up at all if you dont start the xserver first.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: installing KDE

Did you also logged out and back in so that the new path takes effect?

tom8658

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Registered: 2006-01-27

Posts: 18

Re: installing KDE

I added /opt/kde/bin to my path, and KDEDIR is set to /opt/kde, but I still have the same problem. When I go back to the first terminal to check KDE's  output, I get:

X Error: BadWindow (invalid window parameter) 3
   Major opcode: 19
   Minor opcode: 0

Any ideas?

Bralkein

Member

Registered: 2004-10-26

Posts: 354

Re: installing KDE

Installing KDE with just pacman -S kde should install more than everything you need. Whenever I have done it under Arch, I just install it like that. One thing I do differently is to use KDM. Try shutting down X and everything, then do /etc/rc.d/kdm start and see if that works. If that still doesn't work, try deleting the ~/.kde directory in case your settings have somehow been mysteriously corrupted.

Good luck!

tom8658

Member

Registered: 2006-01-27

Posts: 18

Re: installing KDE

I fixed it by uninstalling and reinstalling KDE. That's very odd, it's something I would expect from a Windows application...

It still crashes when you exit KDE with a similar error... but the rest works just fine.