I've been using Gnome with varying degrees of frustration since RedHat 5.2, and decided, especially after hearing Kurt Granroth's spiel at CLUE, to try KDE. I'm running Debian, and am loath to use "unstable" packages, but I went to the site http://kde.debian.net/ and read what I could.
- Insert line "deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto" into /etc/apt/sources.list. - Start dselect and see the ff. Hit http://kde.tdyc.com potato/main Packages Hit http://kde.tdyc.com potato/main Release Hit http://kde.tdyc.com potato/crypto Packages Hit http://kde.tdyc.com potato/crypto Release Figure out that I am supposed to install the "kdm" package. I see that it conflicts with gdm, which is bad since I have gdm somewhat configured, but is good since some gdm "features" don't work, anyway. Also, I cannot install task-anti-aliasing, since it depends on xlibs, which is not available. Apparently it is in "unstable", which I don't want to mess with. - Install and reboot. A nice KDE login screen comes up. However, I am unable to login: I get an error message "Could not read network connection list /home/glenn/.DCOPserver...:0 Is the dcopserver program running?" or somesuch. - But I can login as root! I can choose either KDE on Gnome and they both seem to work fine. I figure it must be a simple configuration problem, file permissions, perhaps. I trot off to the Debian mailing list archives and lo, three messages describe my exact problem, e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0011/msg00213.html This open software process is great, I'm thinking, but: three messages and not one with a reply. Summary: KDE looks pretty good if you are (always) root. Glenn Murray http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray/public_html/Welcome.html
