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Man Shankar wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>> This may be a n00b question, but how the heck do I get KDE 4.2 to start?
>> I've edited /etc/rc.conf to XESSSION="kde-4.2" and that didn't work. I
>> don't think I hhad to edit /etc/conf.d/xdm last time since it was still
>> set to "kdm".
>>
>> So, what else is there?
>>
> By the way these days XSESSION is set in
>
> /etc/env.d/90xsession
>
> and do env-update, but that only controls startx behaviour. I missed the kdm
> part as well. With xdm initscript failing I had to set
>
> DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm-4.2"
> in /etc/conf.d/xdm
>
For those of you following along at home, to use KDM, you need to set
DISPLAYMANAGER to one of the following:
"kdm"
if you have any version of kdm emerged with USE=-kdeprefix
"kdm-${MAJOR_VERSION}.${MINOR_VERSION}"
if you have kdm emerged with USE=kdeprefix
"kdm-live"
if you are using the live ebuild with USE=kdeprefix
If it is set to "kdm" (or "kde", "kde2", or "kde3"), the "xdm" init
script looks for any kdm in the $PATH (which may or may not include
/usr/kde/*/bin at this point in the init sequence); if it is set to
"kdm-$foo", then the init script looks for /usr/kde/$foo/bin/kdm.
(for all the gory details, see read /etc/init.d/xdm).
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