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On 4/27/10 5:31 PM, andrew rappe wrote:
> Dear Alexander:
> 
> Thanks for the advice.  Ok, Ok no more downgrades.  :)
> 
> 1. I re-upgraded Xquartz to 2.5.0.
> 2. I followed all the steps you outlined exactly below.
> 3. When I click on X11 icon, quartz-wm runs and kde4 does not.
> 4. I then typed startkde in the quartz-wm xterm;
> most of the kde4 stuff (bottom toolbar, etc) appeared,
> but all windows have xquartz decoration.
> 5. I then rebooted.
> 6. Click on X11, quartz-wm again and no kde4.
> 7. After reboot, running startkde in xterm does not work.
> 8. After ALL this, moving my .xinitrc back into $HOME fixes everything,
> and clicking X11 icon runs KDE4 as window manager.
> (sorry about that)
> 
> So I am happy because my KDE4 is working just as well as before
> the OS upgrade.  But now I know that it's not the "blessed" way,
> any idea why I got quartz-wm instead of KDE4 when running without .xinitrc?



> Any further suggestions for me to try to get the .xinitrc.d approach
> to work fully?
> 
> Thanks again!
> Andrew
> 

Yeah, I forgot that scripts in $HOME/.xinitrc.d have to be set
executable via "chmod +x <scriptname>"

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Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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