I am following the instructions for installation. in between echo startkde > ~/.xinitrc and startx, you either need to define a path, or replace this with echo /usr/kde/<version>/bin/startkde > ~/.xinitrc . by itself, startkde is not found by xinit. kde should always also define /usr/kde/current/ to be a link to whatever the version is, but this is another issue altogether. sincerely, /iaw
hi; thank you for your reaction.. tough i can quiet understand why "echo startkde > ~/.xinitrc" doens't work this should be "echo exec startkde > ~/.xinitrc" like we mentioned in www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml#doc_chap2_sect5 greetings, diox
I know. but I believe the directory is not part of the X path, unless you set it (not mentioned). somewhere, there needs to be a way to find the full path, I believe.
Maybe your PATH has been broken ? You can set it on the way we do here : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=5#doc_chap3 CAUTION: you *should* really think about where you want your path to be! the information about path is on the same page (at the top) greetz diox
I have just tested it and in my KDE 3.5.3 it works just fine (without exec too). If there's a bug denying some versions of KDE being added to the $PATH, please file it to the KDE team to be fixed as soon as possible. Thanks for reporting, but it has to be closed.
might be a problem with kdepath, see Bug 104174
