[clue-tech] cannot run konsole or xterm in KDE 3.5

[Ken MacFerrin]

Ken MacFerrin wrote:
> Dave Price wrote:
>> CLUEful ones ...
>>
>> I have Gentoo and KDE 3.5 up and running now on an AMD64 - from scratch
>>
>> I use xinit startkde to get into KDE - seems to come up fine, and most
>> apps work, but any console apps - like konsole or xterm refuse to
>> start -
>>
>> The error that is displayed is:
>>
>> "KDE seems to already be running on this display"
>>
>> One difference seems to be that there is a "Login" xterm active - if I
>> quit that, KDE exits ...
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
> 
> If you're going to be using X on this machine regularly I would suggest
> using a login manager like kdm to start X for you.
> 
> In /etc/rc.conf set:
> DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
> XSESSION="kde-3.5.3" (or whatever your KDE version is)
> 
> Then:
> # rc-update add xdm default
> 
> This will bring up the login manager automatically each time you boot.
> 
> Then, if for some reason you need to bypass the login manager and access
> the console directly you can still do so with "Ctrl + Alt + F1", and
> then switch back to your Xsession display with "Ctrl + Alt + F7"
> 

Also, for your current setup, I would use "Ctrl + Alt + F10" to kill the
existing xterm first, and then issue "startkde" after logging into the
console.  If the xterm comes back up a few seconds after you kill it,
then kill it again and run "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" from console.  If you
don't want X starting itself automatically then just make sure it's not
set in your startup levels:
# rc-update del xdm

-Ken