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doro0001

Member

From: South Western Germany

Registered: 2007-09-29

Posts: 16

: not foundnd//.xinitrc: line 9: exec: startkde

starting KDE with kdm works perfect, however I'd prefer to start X in the 'Slackware tradition', without kdm, but with startx

Unfortunately that causes the following problem:

The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
>                   Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
: not foundnd//.xinitrc: line 9: exec: startkde
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1;
fixing.

Strangely enough, X shows up for a second, but throws me back to the console again

hints:
- /tmp is writable for the user
- the .xinitrc is fine
- root can startx kde
- the user can start X with xterm

I, of course, read lots of postings however none of them seem to suit to my specific problem.
Thank you, guys.

hacosta

Member

From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: : not foundnd//.xinitrc: line 9: exec: startkde

i strongly beleieve that your .xinitrc is wrong, either that or you don't hace /opt/kde in your PATH

doro0001

Member

From: South Western Germany

Registered: 2007-09-29

Posts: 16

Re: : not foundnd//.xinitrc: line 9: exec: startkde

cat .xinitrc

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#
# exec xtermdeclare -x 
# exec wmaker
exec startkde
# exec icewm
# exec blackbox
# exec fluxbox

export

[...]
PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/opt/mozilla/bin:/opt/qt/bin"
[...]

doro0001

Member

From: South Western Germany

Registered: 2007-09-29

Posts: 16

Re: : not foundnd//.xinitrc: line 9: exec: startkde

OK I found out the solution

For what reason ever the file .xsession with the following content was missing: /bin/bash --login -i ~/.xinitrc

Cheerz