On Monday, Feb 10, 2003, at 00:42 Europe/London, Benjamin Reed wrote:
The environment variables "should" be set up properly although it wouldn't be the first time that I'd messed up something obvious, which I then spent days trying to solve. The root of my fink installation is:On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 07:17 PM, Daniel Wyeth wrote:This makes it look like your path is not set up. On my system, iceauth is in /usr/X11R6/bin. If it can't find /usr/X11R6/bin in the path, many bad things will happen. =)sh: iceauth: command not found kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.
When you run KDE under Apple's X11, are you doing it by making a ~/.xinitrc file?
If so, did you add "source /sw/bin/init.sh" to the very top? If not, KDE will not be able to find some things it needs. Your ~/.xinitrc file should look something like:
source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec /sw/bin/startkde >/tmp/kde.log 2>&1
/usr/local/ports
and my PATH variable reads:
:/usr/local/site/bin:/usr/local/site/sbin::/usr/local/ports/bin:/usr/ local/ports/sbin:
:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin::/bin:/sbin
I have included init.csh in /etc/csh.cshrc:
source '/usr/local/ports/bin/init.csh'
Although it's not in my ~/.xinitrc file as I don't currently use one ( apple's X11 automatically launches a an xterm session and the quartz-wm window manager if there is no xinitrc in the user's home directory ).
I'm not currently running KDE as a whole, in the sense that I'm not at any point executing startkde, as I don't like the environment that much, I've always been an enlightenment user until I discovered OSX. This has never posed a problem before ( under FreeBSD ) as kdeinit and DCOP always started as required on the launch of the first KDE application ( from a terminal, enlightenment menu, etc... ).
After writing that last paragraph I decided to try running startkde from .xinitrc and yes, damn it, it works =-} ( he writes turning quite red ).
Was it just that the variables in /etc/csh.cshrc aren't exported into the X11 environment ( i.e. the source .../.../init.csh line needs to exist in .xinitrc ) or is it that I need to execute startkde from here in order to use a KDE application? If it is necessary to use the startkde script, I am guessing that it should be possible to use a quartz-wm in place KWin by modifying the script?
I apologise for this rather garbled response, the hour is getting very late, and thank you for yours, you picked up one of the more important things that I had completely missed. While I would rather not have to wait for KDE to start up every time I need to run X, it's a significant improvement on not being able to run KDE applications at all.
With thanks and embarrassment,
Daniel.
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