I'm currently using Suse 10.1 with KDE3, but decided I'd
like to get some
experience with building and 'playing' with KDE4. So, I
created two new
partitions on my HD (home and root), and installed openSuse
10.2 with Qt4.
Following the instructions on
http://developernew.kde.org/Getting_Started/Bu
ild/Unstable_Version
I created a kde-devel user, and successfully (I think...)
built KDE4.
Using the instructions on
http://developernew.kde.org/Getting_Star
ted/Set_up_KDE_4_for_development
I was able to run kwrite via ssh.
However, I decided I'd like to run a 'proper' KDE4 session,
so I created a
desktop file as defined under 'Solitary KDE4 session' on
that URL. The
desktop file looks like this:
# cat /usr/share/xsessions/kde4.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/home/kde-devel/kde/bin/startkde
TryExec=/home/kde-devel/kde/bin/startkde
Name=KDE4
Name[hi]=कडीई
Name[mn]=КДЭ
Name[ta]=Kஏறறக காவலன
Name[xh]=iKDE
Name[xx]=xxKDExx
<snip comments>
I created a new user, kde4, logged out, and tried to start a
KDE4 session. It
got through the 'splash' screen stuff (Loading Window
Manager etc), and
presented me with a blank desktop with a 'Suse blue'
background, but no
icons, taskbar, etc.
The output of ps looked as follows:
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 11:09 ? 00:00:00 init [5]
<snip>
root 2975 1 0 11:10 ? 00:00:00
/opt/kde3/bin/kdm
<snip>
tonyb 9126 1 0 11:49 ? 00:00:00
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork
--print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session
root 9356 2975 0 11:52 tty7 00:00:02
/usr/bin/Xorg -br -nolisten
tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-jx1QGZ
root 9357 2975 0 11:52 ? 00:00:00 -:0
kde4 9382 9357 0 11:53 ?
00:00:00 /bin/sh /home/kde-devel/kde/bin/startkde
kde4 9420 9382 0 11:53 ?
00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/bash /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
kde4 9423 1 0 11:53 ? 00:00:00
/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork
--print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session
kde4 9459 9382 0 11:53 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver
root 9461 7640 0 11:59 tty1 00:00:00 ps -ef
The following files had been created in kde4 (note no
'Desktop' folder)
# ls /home/kde4
.Xauthority .emacs .kermrc .xemacs
bin
.bash_history .exrc .mozilla .xim.template
public_html
.bashrc .fontconfig .muttrc .xinitrc.template
.config .fonts .profile .xsession-errors
.dmrc .inputrc .urlview .xtalkrc
.dvipsrc .kde .xcoralrc Documents
# ls /home/kde4/.kde
cache-crow share socket-crow tmp-crow
# ls /home/kde4/.kde/share
config
# ls /home/kde4/.kde/share/config
startupconfig startupconfigfiles startupconfigkeys
I think I followed all the instructions correctly, but maybe
not! Any ideas on
where to go from here? Are there any log files which could
be of use?
--
Cheers,
TonyB
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