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Re: KDE 1.0 problems....



> Ze'ev Maor wrote:
> 
> I've worked with an older ver. of KDE (not sure what ver., something from
> 3/98) for some time and it worked juse fine. I wanted to upgrade to ver.
> 1.0, so I 'dpkg -r' all the packages and then installed the new ones
> (installation didn't report any problems), as soon as I start X, it starts
> the first client (an xterm), doesn't even starts the entire KDE enviroment
> (no panel,wallpaper etc.) and crashes right back to the terminal - no errors
> reported. Running kernel 2.0.34, XSVGA...any ideas???
In the past (maybe still now?) there were two packages of KDE for each
version:
One packaged by the KDE team (can be found at ftp.kde.org),
The other packaged by the debian team (can be downloaded from their ftp site).
It is possible that your last KDE package was from debian, and the new one is
from KDE. Since the one from debian integrated better with the system (added
kwm to the list of wm's, asked if it should be made default, etc...), you
should manually configure your system to launch kwm instead of any other
window manager.
You should set your .xinitrc file to include a call to the script startkde
located in your kde binary directory, and remove any call to any other window
manager from that file (twm, fvwm, etc...). (don't forget to back up your
.xinitrc before starting).

Hope this helps.


Regards,
Yannai.

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The Hebrew University High School    http://www.leyada.jlm.k12.il/~yannaigo/

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