LFS uses xterm to start KDE.......LOL

I compiled another LFS using Kernel 2.4.26

I have X installed, and KDE
with 3D accel for Nvidia and amazingly I got
sound working without alsa!!

heres the weird part......when I do "startx"
I get "TWM" ......I guess this is xterm
it starts fine and the when I enter startkde in the
xterm window boom......kde loads all fine and dandy.

from the command line I cannot start kde with

"startkde"

I have to start xterm first.......

anyone else have this same odd configuration.......I
have spent the last 38 hours or so going thru the LFS init scripts
trying to figure it out..........I have also went thru the
Beyond LFS scripts too, but to no avail.........Any Ideas??

like I said KDE works great........I can see my windows partitions, mount, umount CD's, have the kicker bar and all menus, bring up konsole, and play games, have desktop background , screensavers, etc......all thru xterm.......LMAO

i have done that before: starting kde while running a window manager. but i don't think it's weird. now, looks like the reason you can't startkde from "the command line" is because X has started. edit your ~/.xinitrc and change the last line to "startkde"

I don't have much experience with that, but something that may help...

Put startkde at the end of your ~/.xinitrc file.

That should (I think) make X directly run the startkde command as opposed to the default xterm run if nothing else is specified. Hope this works with LFS, I had something similar work for me on Debian once.

I do have an ~/.xinitrc

but when I change it to read " exec startkde"
X crashes back to CLI.......odd huh.
It seems like, for some reason when I compiled and installed KDE......the kwin manager did not get compiled properly,, but it gave no errors either........so the KDE scripts compiles and used xterm somehow in place of kwin...........I have no window decorations at all........just the "green" xterm bars on everything........even kong and $SHELL windows......

another side effect...........from the time I enter the info to "grub" on a reboot it take less that 13 seconds to get the login prompt.......
pretty damn fast, faster than syslinux that my Slack box uses to boot.........

IIRC, don't put "exec" - you just want "startkde"

Can you run kdm as root from the command line?

Originally posted by zz9pluralzalpha Can you run kdm as root from the command line?

why YES it does..........KDE fires up perfect!! Nvidia driver still works and sound pounds out of the speakers........Nice.......
thanks for the reminder, I forgot about trying it...........

For others who are interested in LFS and BLFS........after you get LFS done........you can save it!!
mine weighed in @ 490 megs or so.........I just tar'd and feathered it and it
compressed down to 153 megs............SO if one wants to experiment with different configuration and setups
have at it.......and IF things go wrong just delete it all and start over with a fresh bare bones LFS by
unzipping the tarball...................

I think now I'll upgrade the kernel to 2.6x and see what happens..........stay tuned........

You know I did that to one of my setups; tar'ed and gzipped. I got mozilla and openoffice actually compiled from source (took 7 hours) but when I screwed up my system (accidental format) and untared the lfs system back out it did not want to compile anything afterwards..just constant errors.

There any special way I should tar, bzip2 the partition up after completeing the lfs install; and what about unpacking it?

I confess, so far I've just taken the approach in one of the hints: Create a new partition and copy all the LFS files across to it. Edit the fstab, and voila! One pristine LFS backup that you can even boot into

Well, I finally figured out the Problem with xterm..........LOL
In the BLFS book when you install X, you make an ~.xinitrc file and put it in
your ~/.home directory................Now, the X install also puts a xinitrc file in
/etc/X11/xinitrc/ directory which also fires up twm(tab window manager)
so I just got rid of the ~.xinitrc in roots home, and changed the other to startkde...........and boom...........startx now fires up KDE just like it should.

I figured this will be a good place to add an odd "egg" ....so to speak............

I tried to install gkrellm, and got an error about a pango shared library.........gkrellm was looking for "libpangoxft.so.1

well the pango package installed "libpangox.so.1 and libpangoft.so.1"
so I just made a symlink like this..... "libpangoxft.so.1 > libpangoft.so.1
gkrellm get the file its looking for and works like a charm........just an FYI in case anyone else hits this snag..............