>> But why is it *bad* ?? Just interested.
>
>The version of KDE (1.0?) that was included with my distribution of RH 5.2
>had no 'usekde' anywhere I could find. It did, however, have a script (?)
>called 'startkde'. This was the source of a lot of my own confusion with the
>answers I got here and elsewhere about getting KDE working.
I got my RedHat 5.2 distro with KDE 1.0 from "Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung"
in Berlin, Germany and the booklet in the CD box says that KDE can be made
to be the default desktop for a user by logging in as that user and cd to
/opt/kde/bin (uhhh, i think i told u just /opt/kde in my first reply, sorry
for that). As superuser (root) it can be done with usekde <username> for
each user or with a usekde without parameters for the whole system.
I did what i was told and it worked fine, but upgraded to KDE1.1.1 some
time ago and it still works without any problem.
>Ironically, typing 'startkde' did nothing, as far as I could tell. What I
>ended up having to do was edit the file '/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients' (yes, the
>file on my system did not begin with a period), replacing the entire
>contents with just a single line: startkde
Hmmm, as my mighty booklet says, the file .Xclients will be created for
the first time by using usekde. Dunno if it is really like that.
°snip°
>Being new to all this, I'm not sure what all of the above means, but it
>succeeded in getting KDE working for me.
Great ! I enjoy KDE since i got it working.
>
>Anyway, that might have something to do with the "bad" reference. I'm not
>sure why your copy of RH 5.2/KDE has 'usekde' and mine doesn't. From what
>I've read, it would have made my task a lot easier ;)
Yea, it was damn easy, that's why i could do it, hehehe. I just wonder if
a RH 5.2 is not always a RH 5.2 - looks like that there are different
versions depending on where and from whom it is bought. Pretty strange,
isn't it ?
Greez
Dave
