Hello all,

I've been playing around with kde the last few days by force as my xp box took a shit on me the other day.

I got kde to work. As I login as root and I type startx and it works fine. But I can't do the same with any of the other users.

Obviously I'm trying to steer away from using root all the time. What do I need to edit or to run or to set permissions to, to get this thing to work?

Thanks in advnace,

charlie r

What distro are you using?

Sorry about that. I'm running slackware 10.2, just the basic full install.

Thanks,

charlie r

You have to set permissions to read and execute for everyone but root. chmod 755 for all the KDE files and directories should do it.

I don't know about that. Slackware should set the permission correctly on a basic full install. The truth is, there is no way for anyone to possibly know what the problem is unless you tell us the error your getting. while Jiml8's response was a good guess, it may not be the actual problem. When you post your questions, please give a description of the error your getting. Usually the last few lines are the most important.

But if you can't be bothered, I'll try my hand at a completely random guess to the solution:
try adding initkde to your /home/user/.initrc file. I had to do this after I installed slackware.

regards,
...drkstr

okay, still havent had the time to try those idea, but i will later today and tell you guys if they worked. anyhow, heres my error codes during startup.

trying to create local folder //.kde permission denied
xset: unable to open display
Qsettings: error creating /.qt
can not create file //.DCOPserver_machinename_NO_DISPLAY: permission denied
DCOP self test failed
kwin: cannot connect to x server
kpersonalizer: cannot connect to x xserver

thanks,

charlie r

acutally i use the command "startx". The errors above are from when I type startkde. I log on with a differnt user and I get these two lines.

hostname: unknow host
Xauth: timeout in locking authority file //.Xauthority

BTW, setting everything with chmod 755 /kde doesn't seem to work. I still get teh same errors. I'm going to try option two now.

Thanks,

charlie r

Ok, that's what I thought the problem was. And by the way, I need to make a correction in my previous post, I was way off. I shouldn't type from memory when I haven't slept in awhile. WHat you actually need to do is make a file called .xinitrc and add the line startkde. KDE should start up fine now if you run startx as the user.

Hope this helped,
...drkstr

Hello drkstr,

I've done what you have said as root. That's how I got kde to work the first time. What exactly am I to do as the user? Sure I can make a file, name it, and throw a line in there. But where do I stick it? Home directory? Then startx should just work? I've never used any of this gui stuff so setting it up is just a loss to me.

Thanks for your help,

charlie r

yup sorry, I should have been more clear. Log in as the user you want to run kde and then:
This creates a file in your home directory called .xinitrc which will contain the line startkde.

Hope that was a little more clear.
...drkstr

drkstr,

Thank you sir. It worked just like it should. Much appreciated.

charlie r