Total Newbie...help! start KDE?

mojo1865 · 2009-04-20 02:48:01

Maybe I shouldn't be messing with Arch/KDE/etc., but I'm just trying to learn here! I installed Arch, and used pacman to install KDE 4.2. All I know how to do is log into root.....how do I start KDE?!? I tried startkde, to no avail. I really don't know much of anything about the Unix command line....ugh!

Thanks!

Inxsible · 2009-04-20 02:52:32

mojo1865 wrote:

Maybe I shouldn't be messing with Arch/KDE/etc., but I'm just trying to learn here! I installed Arch, and used pacman to install KDE 4.2. All I know how to do is log into root.....how do I start KDE?!? I tried startkde, to no avail. I really don't know much of anything about the Unix command line....ugh!
Thanks!

you need to tell us where exactly you are in the installation process. Have you installed Xorg yet ? KDE or any other WM/DE for that matter will not start without X.

Also, how are you trying to start KDE - using KDM ? you said startkde - which indicates via .xinitrc.

mojo1865 · 2009-04-20 02:55:55

Wow....see, I knew I'm pretty lost here! I haven't installed anything except KDE, and I got the "startkde" idea from the KDE help files on their web site.

mojo1865 · 2009-04-20 03:12:04

Thanks Inxsible! ....got KDE to start at least....now I'll start working on getting it working right!

Inxsible · 2009-04-20 03:17:02

mojo1865 wrote:

Thanks Inxsible! ....got KDE to start at least....now I'll start working on getting it working right!

Good Luck !!

Oh and welcome to Arch and the forums !!

sand_man · 2009-04-20 03:43:29

I hope you didn't figure out how to run it as root... :s

decaren · 2009-04-20 05:22:57

Use the beginner's guide in the wiki. It's very well written and explains pretty much everything.

Llama · 2009-04-20 07:02:45

decaren wrote:

Use the beginner's guide in the wiki. It's very well written and explains pretty much everything.

You'd better ... Here, in case you missed it.

Welcome aboard!

Last edited by Llama (2009-04-20 07:03:08)

rzodkiewka · 2009-04-20 07:51:01

Begginer's Guide is nice and useful but with new xorg some parts should be rewritten.
E.g. you have only

Xorg -configure

tool to make xorg.conf file and it does not always work (for me it didn't). However, if you first add hal to your daemons in /etc/rc.conf, xserver should start with no xorg.conf at all.
I do not know if you need special keyboard layout (gb, pl, se or whatever).
Adding it without xorg.conf is possible but I didn't find any howto.
What worked on my laptop (thanks to rusty99):
Created /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap">
      <append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append>
    </match>

    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
      <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>

    
      <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">keyboard</merge>
      <match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
        <merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
      </match>

      <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">pl</merge>
      <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">qwerty</merge>

    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

added

setxkbmap pl

to my ~/.xinitrc file before starting window manager, in your case before

exec startkde

If you uncomment exec startkde in this file, you should start kde with command

startx

or

xinit

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Total Newbie...help! start KDE?

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Re: Total Newbie...help! start KDE?

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