RE: [XFree86] Problems with configuring finding X
You can't install kde without having X installed. KDE is a window manager which works in a windowing environment (X). Its like a basement upon which you build a house. KDE is supposed to be started from within X, you can (and should) have a script file that starts kde automatically for your. Often its called startkde and is called by the startx command (which is itself a script.) Like those Russian dolls where each one contains a smaller doll which contains a smaller doll and so on. You can configure options to control the login process and by setting the init level you can determine what happens as you boot your computer. The script files used by the startx and startkde commands are probably good places to start looking. You should definitely have a working X installation with a good config file --before-- you install kde. http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/startx.1.html http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/xinit.1.html http://cantonlinux.org/pipermail/tech/2002-December/002631.html Just remember man pages are your friend, think of it as a mantra. It will protect you. Exhale with the universal man. On a slightly related note, I think the command should be changed to woman because everyone knows that women are more helpful than men. ;) zaijien, cyn -Original Message- From: Joseph Felps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 8:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [XFree86] Problems with configuring finding X ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re : [XFree86] Problems with configuring finding X
On 2003.06.18 11:58, Joseph Felps wrote: Thanks for the replay, but I really already knew this. I've done alot of reading of the subject and I am able to get kde to start up with the startkde script, but everything is not exactlly right. However my main problem seems to be that even though Ihave X installed and configured properly, when I try to compile other programs they can't find my X. Cynthia Grossen wrote: If you mean that when trying to compil other programs using X for graphical purposes you have failure during compil, it is perhaps because they don't find the necessary headers files which declare the functions exported by X. If you have installed X via rpm or deb you must install the -devel packages (they have the same name as the normal packages followed by the -devel suffix), these packages containing the above mentionned headers. If you have compiled X from source, you then have all needed X files on your system, then you certainly have badly specified the directories before compiling the other programs. HTH Bye Manu ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
