[CLUE-Tech] Preventing KDE from taking over X sessions

[David L. Willson]

You forgot to mention which distro you're using, Matt...
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    David L. Willson
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Quoting Matt Gushee <mgushee at havenrock.com>:

> I will not bash KDE ... I will not bash KDE ... I will not bash KDE ...
> 
> Hi, all--
> 
> Well, it's happened again. I wanted to run a program that depends on
> KDE--actually I think it just needed kdelibs, but just in case, I
> installed kdebase (which includes the desktop). I do *not* want a KDE
> desktop, just the one app, but after installing KDE, I found that
> whenever I started an X session, it would try to be a KDE session (but
> that didn't even work because something was missing). So I:
> 
>   * Examined my .xinitrc, .xsession, .Xclients files, and so on.
>     No reference to kwm or k-anything. Same for the system-wide xinitrc.
> 
>   * Found (I think) all kde-related dotfiles and dot-directories
>     (.kde*, .kwm*, .ksm*, .mcop*, .dcop*, ....) in my home directory and
>     deleted them. No change.
> 
>   * Deleted all kde-related /tmp/ subdirectories that I owned (actually,
>     I later found I had missed one--maybe that was the problem). No
>     change. 
>   
>   * Deleted /etc/X11/sessions/kde (or whatever it was called). No
>     change.
> 
>   * Uninstalled the kdebase package. Finally back to normal.
> 
> So what's the secret? What kind of black magic does KDE use to take
> control, and what's the counterspell? I looked at the KDE FAQ and a few
> other docs, and couldn't find any reference to this problem ...  maybe
> the KDE team doesn't think it's a problem ;-) ... but this has happened
> to me at least 2 or 3 times over a span of 5 years, so I don't think
> it's a fluke. Anybody got a CLUE about this?
> 
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