On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Barry Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Knecht <[email protected]> skribis: >> If you get a chance could you please post whatever script you run >> to start X this way. I haven't done this in years and it will save me >> some time researching it. > > You can just turn off the kdm and put ‘exec startkde’ in ~/.xinitrc > Then when you run startx you get KDE. That is how I do it. >
OK, got a chance to try this. No delays starting up KDE from a console using startx so it is looking like a KDM issue to me, or at least I'll assume that in the short run. I've not tried rebuilding any packages yet ala Duncan's USE flag suggestions. It seems I don't have as many options as he does. Of the 4 flags he suggested it seems that consolekit & policykit are forced on for some packages and kept that way no matter what I put in /etc/portage/make.conf. I presume that is either driven by my choice of the KDE profile or the ebuild itself? Not sure if Duncan builds using portage or from code. Anyway, only kdelibs will get rebuilt with -upower & -udisks. Worth a try I suppose, but as I suspect this is a KDM issue I'm not confident it will help. Anyway, thanks to all for the inputs. Cheers, Mark
