I've run into some very strange trouble installing SUSE 9. In the beginning KDE wouldn't accept my localisation or language (Greek) It seems that I've fixed that but can't log in as user in KDE. After the login screen KDE loads , I hear the sound that says it's running but there's no change in the screen. I switch to console mode , run ps and see that indeed all of the KDE is running. If I try to start a KDE app then I get a message ' No DISPLAY found ' . Everything works in root mode just fine. I've deleted the Kde dirs from my home - nothing .Created a new user - same trouble .At first I thought it was a XFree config messup but I've re-edited it with SaX2 - zilch . I'm running head-first against a brick wall here so any help would be appreciated

the new version of x, someone please correct me if i'm wrong, can use a config file out of your home directory, so it is possible that under root x works and under a user it doesn't. "man xf86cfg" may help,

if this doesn't help, please include version of xfree86 and whether setup was done by your distro's installation or via an install tool.

man xf86cfg doesn't work

anyway when I make a new user , X should work for him right ? well it doesn't

My Xserver version is 4.3.0.1-29 a bugfix from 4.3.0.1-21 , configured display 0.0 with SaX2 the default Suse tool , 3d acceleration disabled then re-enabled for NVIDIA ( complete uninstall -reinstall for the driver with SaX ) The fun part ? Windowmaker works both in root and user mode

Hope I won't have to RTFM the whole XFree project - I'd rather format and re-install

Call SuSE up and ask them.

Obviously the problem is KDE-only and something went belly-up when I tried to change my localisation. Output from .xsession-errors ends with <kdesktop: cannot connect to X server :0 >
reminds me somewhat of what you get if you invoke a KDE app as a different user from withing a console w/o typing xhost+localhost first. Darnit it's just a command away

in reference to a new user.. no it will not nessacarily work, i believe the new x server has a default config and a per user config, so if your server is setup only for root then the default config may not work, and your new user would fall under that, check for a working config in your roots home directory, if it's there try putting it in your users directory...

and yes if possible cal SUse and ask them...

I've had similar problems, and I eventually apparently fixed it. I'm not sure which of these two things fixed it though: 1) I uninstalled xfs-xtt, and installed xfstt. 2) My harddrive was almost full, so I deleted some stuff and cleared up space. Background: I noticed in the file ~/.kde3-errors, the only error was some problem with initializing TrueType fonts, hence possible fix 1. Second, I'm sure it makes a difference that the harddrive was near capacity. By the way, if that doesn't work, some other forums for kindof similar problems suggested deleting /tmp/*, ~/.Xauthority, ~/.ICE-authority, and if you want to get really drastic, ~/.kde.

Speicifically, I got this error in ~/.kde3-errors:

$ xset +fp /usr/share/fonts
xset: bad font path element (#64), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax

Note that there is a thread on that error here: http://linuxquestions.org/questions/...ath+element+64