On 2020-01-04 13:37, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > On 1/3/20 11:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 2020-01-04 12:49, Robert McBroom via users wrote: >>> Hadn't used kde for a few weeks. Trying to start it gave me the message >>> that it was not installed. Curious since I've had it on my system for >>> years. following the message suggestion ran >>> >>> dnf groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" >>> >>> which happily did nothing but said it was complete. From rpm -qa I see lots >>> of kde entries. Same thing happened on my laptop. Both systems running >>> recently updated 31. Has kde completely abandoned x11? >> How are you trying to start it? >> >> I'm running KDE perfectly fine on F31 and even Rawhide. Both under X11 >> since I'm not yet interested in >> trying Wayland. >> > Typically just do > > startx > > from a console boot login. Tried getting a xserver with > > xinit -- :0 > > and using startkde in the resulting xterm. Startkde is not Found, there is > > startplasma-x11 > > which gives me the kde startup display and then drops out of xserver and back > to the console
I normally start my desktop environment from the GUI supplied by gdm or sddm. The only way I know to start KDE Plasma from the command line is to have a ~/.xinitrc file containing exec startplasma-x11 And then startx will start the KDE Plasma environment -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
