2008/5/28 Mark Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, I decided to take the plunge and install KDE4 based on the directions > at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4.xml. > > The installation went well (with a re-install of qt4 due to a missing use > flag) and it was on to restarting the system so I could start mucking with > the new interface. And that's where I hit a snag. > > In the URL above, the directions say to change /etc/conf.d/xdm, the > DISPLAYMANAGER variable to kdm-4.0. Every time I tried that, I got just xdm > instead as a login screen and then, after log in, got my same KDE3.5 > desktop. There are no other directions on this page, so now I don't know > where to go from here. > > What now? > > -- > Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar > > > Mark Haney > Sr. Systems Administrator > ERC Broadband > (828) 350-2415 > > Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support > -- > [email protected] mailing list > >
you have to add the DYSPLAYMANAGER=kdm-4.0 to a file in /etc/env.d/ better the local environment file, then BE SURE to have installed the following: kdebase-startkde-4.0.x and kdebase-meta-4.0.x. after that remember to do an etc-update (or dispatch-conf or whatever utility you use for updating the /etc) and then do an env-update and a /etc/init.d/xdm restart. also you should look if xdm has been overwritten (it has to be since) and if i remember well also /etc/conf.d/xdm.conf also has changed. then at kdm login screen select the session type and login. it should work. but e aware that if you're on xorg-server from git kde4 will most likely don't work. -- dott. ing. beso
