Re: kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid

2004-02-22 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Sonntag, 22. Februar 2004 17:01 schrieb James D. Freels: > I don't think the preferences menu show up on the Kmenu unless you have > used it before ? It is not showing up on the root account. Of all > accounts, root should be able to run kcontrol. Of all account, root is the one that you shou

Re: kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid

2004-02-22 Thread James D. Freels
OK. This corrects at least part of the problem with KDM. Another problem with kcontrol: I cannot enable a password-less login (home machine). I don't think the preferences menu show up on the Kmenu unless you have used it before ? It is not showing up on the root account. Of all accounts, r

Re: kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid

2004-02-21 Thread James Stark
> 1) kdm does not work. The symptoms appear to be Xauthority related. > There is a temporary Xauthority file getting created in > /var/run/xauth/. After logging into kde using the kdm front end, the > system just does nothing. Nothing appears to be running inside of X. I > can get out with a cn

Re: kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid

2004-02-21 Thread Chris Cheney
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:52:52PM -0700, Doug Holland wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:11 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > > > > 3) There is not kcontrol icon in the Kmenu. I had to add this by hand. > > YOu just about have to have kcontrol ! > > > > I've had menu problems as well. For me,

Re: kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid

2004-02-21 Thread Doug Holland
On Saturday 21 February 2004 12:11 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > > 3) There is not kcontrol icon in the Kmenu. I had to add this by hand. > YOu just about have to have kcontrol ! > I've had menu problems as well. For me, all the Debian standard menus disappeared. I deleted everything in .kde/sh

kdm, kcontrol, and other problems under KDE 3.2 with Sid

2004-02-21 Thread James D. Freels
I have installed the un-released kde3.2 packages as recommended on http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE for Sid users who are impatient. These packages are very good indeed and thanks to those who have made them available. Here is a couple of problems I have had: 1) kdm does not work. The symp