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matthew_moppett

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Registered: 2022-01-02

Posts: 16

[Solved] Can't start KDE: startplasma-x11 "not found"

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)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,554

Re: [Solved] Can't start KDE: startplasma-x11 "not found"

The letter 'l' and the number '1' are not the same thing

matthew_moppett

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Registered: 2022-01-02

Posts: 16

Re: [Solved] Can't start KDE: startplasma-x11 "not found"

Wow, that was quick. And yes, my problem really was that silly. Thank you very much.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: [Solved] Can't start KDE: startplasma-x11 "not found"

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).