What you can try is to do xinit (instead of startx) from the console and
then you should get up a very basic X with no window managers or anything,
only an xterm.  In this xterm you can type startkde.

I did this to test the recent kde beta. For some reason startx did not
work for me, I don't remember why. xinit let me try it, but it was only
useful for test purposes. If you kill the initial xterm, kde will go down.

Claes

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Andrew Pierce wrote:

>
> > As root 'telinit 3' will shutdown X. Then login on the comsole and edit
> > ~/.Xclients-default. Comment out 'exec gnome-session' and put in exec
> > startkde. To start X type 'startx'.
>
> I did telinit 3 as root and got back out to a console. I do not have a
> ~/.Xclients-default file however. As per Pat's suggestion, I put `exec
> startkde' in my .xinitrc and that did not work.
>
> >From the console, I typed startkde and here are the results:
>
> xsetroot: unable to open display ''
> xset: unable to open display ""
> startkde: Starting up...
> startkde: Running kpersonalizer
> DCOP: register 'anonymouse-2631' -> number of clients is now 1
> DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-2631;
> kwin: cannot connect to X server
> kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server
>
> The last line repeats several times. Needless to say, I do not get KDE. It
> seems to me that X itself has to be started first but I don't know what to
> do.
>
> Help?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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