On Saturday 06 December 2003 10:05 pm, Marshal Newrock wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Hmmmm, I might be making progress on my random crashes. I asked > > earlier about doing emerge -e kde and was thinking about going a > > head with that but kdelibs was blocking glibc. I was still in the > > mood to give it a go so I did > > # emerge -C kdelibs > > This, of course rendered kde useless. Rather than go the whole > > rebuild route I then rebuilt kdelibs. I restarted kde about 10 > > hours ago and so far so good. > > My major problem now is that it seems the only way I can start > > kde since installing windowmaker it to start kdm as root and log > > in to a kde session from there. Can I simply rename or move my > > ~/.xinitrc and then $ $ startx > > to start kde? > > startkde returns DISPLAY errors > > See my xinitrc below. Most of the time I just run kde (with > startx), but sometimes I want a different desktop manager, and can > do it with 'startx -- :1'. Someone creative could likely do far > more with .xinitrc than I have. > > .xinitrc: > #!/bin/bash > > case "$DISPLAY" in > > :0) exec /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde;; > :1) exec /usr/bin/fluxbox -display :1;; > :2) exec /usr/bin/gnome-session -display :2;; > > esac
Cool! Thanks Marshal. I'll give that a try tomorrow -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
