yea..grab the .deb's out of incoming...or change your /usr/bin/startkde script iout with the one I'm attaching.
Ivan On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:33:14PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just updated my old 1.1.2 installation from Ivan's site to the new 2.0 > packages from woody. And nothing's going! KDM works but after login I get > that splash screen telling me it's trying to setup KDE and even telleing me > "KDE is up and running". Then it disappears and the screen remains grey. I > can move the mouse but do not get a menu or something like that. Of course I > do not get a panel or a kvt or anything I could work with. > > Anyone's out there with an idea what's going on? > > Michael > > P.S.: I did copy my .kde and .kderc aside before starting kde2. > -- > Michael Meskes > Michael@Fam-Meskes.De > Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! > Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---end quoted text--- -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
#!/bin/sh # # DEFAULT KDE STARTUP SCRIPT ( KDE-2.0 ) # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt2 export KDEDIRS=/usr export KDEDIR=/usr # Boot sequence: # # kdeinit is used to fork off processes which improves memory usage # and startup time. # # * kdeinit starts the dcopserver and klauncher first. # * then kdesktop is launched, it is started very early in the startup # process to give the user visual feedback as soon as possible. # Since it needs a working ksycoca database it waits for a # "sycoca database changed" signal from kded before it becomes functional. # * Then kded is started. kded is responsible for keeping the sycoca # database up to date. When an up to date database is present it sends # a "sycoca database changed" signal. # # * The rest of the start-up sequence is less critical. # # kdeinit starts dcopserver, klauncher, kdesktop, kicker, kded and # kwrited # Prevent an ever growing .ICEauthority file, since that will kill application # startup performance. rm -f $HOME/.ICEauthority # hack, workaraound, evil rm -f $HOME/.DCOPserver # Set a left cursor instead of the standard X11 "X" cursor, since I've heard # from some users that they're confused and don't know what to do. This is # especially necessary on slow machines, where starting KDE takes one or two # minutes until anything appears on the screen. # # Set the background to plain grey. # The standard X background is nasty, causing moire effects and exploding # people's heads. We use colours from the standard KDE palette for those with # palettised displays. xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -solid '#C0C0C0' # The user's personal KDE directory is usually $HOME/.kde, but this setting # may be overridden by setting KDEHOME. kdehome=$HOME/.kde test -n "$KDEHOME" && kdehome=$KDEHOME # Activate the kde font directories. # # There are 4 directories that may be used for supplying fonts for KDE. # # There are two system directories. These belong to the administrator. # There are two user directories, where the user may add her own fonts. # # The 'override' versions are for fonts that should come first in the list, # i.e. if you have a font in your 'override' directory, it will be used in # preference to any other. # # The preference order looks like this: # user override, system override, X, user, system # # Where X is the original font database that was set up before this script # runs. usr_odir=$kdehome/share/fonts/override sys_odir=$KDEDIR/share/fonts/override usr_fdir=$kdehome/share/fonts sys_fdir=$KDEDIR/share/fonts # We run mkfontdir on the user's font dirs (if we have permission) to pick # up any new fonts they may have installed. If mkfontdir fails, we still # add the user's dirs to the font path, as they might simply have been made # read-only by the administrator, for whatever reason. test -d $usr_odir && (mkfontdir $usr_odir ; xset +fp $usr_odir) test -d $sys_odir && xset +fp $sys_odir test -d $usr_fdir && (mkfontdir $usr_fdir ; xset fp+ $usr_fdir) test -d $sys_fdir && xset fp+ $sys_fdir # Ask X11 to rebuild its font list. xset fp rehash # Link "tmp" resource to directory in /tmp # Creates a directory /tmp/kde-$USER and links $KDEHOME/tmp-$HOSTNAME to it. lnusertemp tmp # Link "socket" resource to directory in /tmp # Creates a directory /tmp/ksocket-$USER and links $KDEHOME/socket-$HOSTNAME to it. lnusertemp socket # the splashscreen and progress indicator ksplash # We set LD_BIND_NOW to increase the efficiency of kdeinit. # kdeinit unsets this variable before loading applications. LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kdesktop +kcminit +kicker +klipper +khotkeys kwrited # start ktips if requested if ! grep "TipsOnStart=false" $kdehome/share/config/kdewizardrc >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then ktip --waitforwm& fi # finally, give the session control to the session manager # Syntax: ksmserver [--restore] [--windowmanager <wm>] # if no windowmanager is specified, ksmserver will ensure kwin is started. # [--restore] should be controlled by kdm exec ksmserver --restore
