I did another pacman -S kde, answered 'y' to install the already installed files, and have changed it back to exec startkde, and all works well.
Checked the files below and all are the same. Thanks for everyones help Great disto! Regards Richard On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:35 am, Rosenstrauch, David wrote: > > Obviously something else has changed in the systems > > ability to find > > basic pathways, because in .xinitrc it no longer can do the > > 'exec startkde', > > but it can do 'exec /opt/kde/bin/startkde' > > Sounds from this like your system paths have gotten messed up. Take a look > in /etc/profile.d/ and see what you find. Mine looks like: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44 2004-09-20 01:36 eclipse.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 862 2005-02-13 07:05 gnome.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 350 2004-12-22 10:15 j2re.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 237 2004-11-12 17:16 j2sdk.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 464 2005-01-04 03:42 kde.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146 2005-01-08 06:28 mozilla-common.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 147 2005-01-27 22:15 qt.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 529 2005-01-17 12:51 xfce4.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 425 2005-02-17 01:12 xorg.sh > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 367 2005-02-17 01:10 xprint.sh > > Also, in particular, take a look at the contents of the kde.sh script here. > Mine looks like: > > export KDEDIR=/opt/kde > export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR:/usr > export PATH=$PATH:$KDEDIR/bin > export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$KDEDIR/man > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$KDEDIR/lib/pkgconfig > if [ ! -z $XDG_DATA_DIRS ]; then > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:$KDEDIR/share > else > export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$KDEDIR/share > fi > if [ ! -z $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS ]; then > export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS:$KDEDIR/etc/xdg > else > export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$KDEDIR/etc/xdg > fi > > > This is where it adds all the kde binaries into your path. > > > And also, try issuing a 'which startkde' command, both as a regular user, > and via a root login shell (i.e., 'su -'). If it can't find it, then > somehow your path is getting messed up. > > HTH, > > DR > > =========================================================================== >=== This message is for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you > received this message in error please delete it and notify us. If this > message was misdirected, CSFB does not waive any confidentiality or > privilege. CSFB retains and monitors electronic communications sent through > its network. Instructions transmitted over this system are not binding on > CSFB until they are confirmed by us. Message transmission is not guaranteed > to be secure. > =========================================================================== >=== > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
