On 6/1/2017 2:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
I've more or less installed KDE in BLFS version 8.0, but I can't figure
out how to start it. I've searched the Web and the BLFS book. KDE Plasma
has a command "startkde" but there does not appear to be the equivalent
for KDE 5. What am I missing?
I've gone over how the startx script works to start twm. I presume that
starting KDE will be similar, given the right magic words.
It's documented on the plasma page:
cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session $KF5_PREFIX/bin/startkde
EOF
startx
Ok. That information ought to be in the instructions for KDE5 as well as
Plasma.
But there's another problem: there is no "startkde" binary anywhere in
the KDE5 installation or BLFS book for KDE5. Only for Plasma.
The closest I can find is "kdeinit5" but that does not work. I searched
on the Net but found nothing useful.
My full .xinitrc is a bit more complex as it takes an optional argument:
$ cat ~/.xinitrc
session=${2:-xfce}
dbus="dbus-launch --exit-with-session"
ck="ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session"
case $session in
fluxbox ) exec startfluxbox ;;
icewm ) exec icewm-session ;;
openbox ) exec openbox-session ;;
sawfish ) exec sawfish ;;
#kde|kde4 ) exec $ck /opt/kde/bin/startkde ;;
kde5|plasma ) exec $ck /opt/kf5/bin/startkde ;;
xfce|xfce4 ) exec $ck startxfce4 ;;
lxde ) exec ck-launch-session startlxde ;;
lxqt ) $dbus /opt/lxqt/bin/startlxqt ;;
lxqt2 ) exec /opt/lxqt/bin/startlxqt ;;
twm ) xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &
xclock -g 100x100-0+0 &
twm
;;
# No known session, just say so
*) echo "Cannot run $1" ;;
esac
What a useful script! I installed all of the listed window managers and
desktops, and they all work fine with this script, except for KDE5. Even
Plasma works fine.
I changed two lines for my use:
plasma ) exec $ck /opt/kf5/bin/startkde ;;
kde5 ) exec $ck /opt/kf5/bin/kdeinit5 ;;
I'm suspecting that the KDE5 build is missing some software components.
Alan
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