Re: Getting KDE4 working

>As previously posted, trying to start kde4 yields a bunch of crashes,
kcminit,
>plasma, etc., repeated knotify4 crashes.

>I had a session running once by sudo /usr/bin/startkde, but the results were
>destructive--took some doing to get kde3.5 running after this.

>For what might the kde4 startup sequence need root privileges and for what
>must it NOT be run with them?

>I noticed that in the kde3.5, there is a start_kdeinit which has the suid bit
>set! There is no such thing in the kde4. Setting that bit in kde4's kdeinit4
>stuff started the session without crashes but nothing after the splash came
>up, just a blank screen.

>I retried from an xterm and got warning that kde libraries are NOT designed
to
>be run with suid set! Various other and sundry error messages and the startup
>was aborted.

>I had to make the same "repairs" as before to restart kde3.5.

Lo, and behold!

My daughter somehow chose a KDE4 session. Not one crash, not one! The session came up. She ended up with two (count em) taskbars, one for kicker and one for kickoff (or whatever the thing is called). She got two sets of desktop icons, one for kdesktop and one with those oversized icons for plasma.

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If she wants to continue with KDE4, I suppose I bring up a terminal and kill kicker and kdesktop so they should not restart the next time. Good question: Will plasma try to start the next time she logs in to KDE3.5. I am afraid to try :-)

So ... what should I do to solve this thing. She obviously started with a fresh .kde4. I could do the same. I had one when I go the thing going with sudo, somehow could to resuse it after resetting the permissions.

So... what next?

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