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Note: this problem was caused by a simple typo ("xll" instead of "x11"). It's unlikely that there's anything to learn from in this thread, except to be careful when working with monospace fonts that make "l"s and "1"s look almost the same.
I normally use KDE on Wayland, but I want to have the option to use X instead so as to work around occasional Wayland bugs/annoyances. So far, however, I haven't managed to get KDE/Plasma to start on X.
I have tried the following:
1) Log out of KDE (Wayland) on tty1.
2) Switch to tty2 and do `startx`.
If I capture all output with `startx &> /tmp/startx.log`, I can see the following error message:
/home/matt/.xinitrc: line 44: exec: startplasma-xll: not found
Which seems clear enough: line 44 in my `.xinitrc` file is `exec startplasma-x11`, and the message suggests that the executable for launching Plasma is missing.
Except that it isn't:
~$ whereis startplasma-x11
startplasma-x11: /usr/bin/startplasma-x11
~$ ls -l /usr/bin/startplasma-x11
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 149608 Aug 3 03:46 /usr/bin/startplasma-x11
If I try replacing `exec startplasma-x11` in `.xinitrc` with `exec /usr/bin/startplasma-x11` I get a similar error:
/home/matt/.xinitrc: line 44: /usr/bin/startplasma-xll: No such file or directory
I've tried reinstalling the `plasma-workspace` package (currently version 5.25.4-1), but this has no effect on the behaviour of `startx`.
Any hints on how to resolve this issue would be appreciated.
Last edited by matthew_moppett (2022-08-11 15:00:04)
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The letter 'l' and the number '1' are not the same thing
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Wow, that was quick. And yes, my problem really was that silly. Thank you very much.
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Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).
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