Re: Can't get a GUI window to open up.

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Charles A Edwards grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:35:34 -0700
> David Guntner <davidg-1boXBf7wef/[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
>> Is there any way to tell startx what desktop manager to use
>=20
> startx startkde		for kde =20
> startx starte16		for enlightenment
> startx startlxde	for lxde
> startx startxfce4	for xfce
> startx starticewm 	for icewm (the default if no wm is
> specified)=20
>=20
> /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ will show all the wm's installed

Cool, thanks.  The files there consist of:

01KDE
07IceWM
16evilwm
29drak3d

Based on your comment above, I guess my unknown desktop manager was
IceWM. :-)

Well, I did a "startx startkde" to fire it up, and got my interface.  At
least, my wallpaper was there and it remembered my last set of windows
and virtual desktops and so on.  I'll definitely say that the new KDE
looks different! :-)

I'm not sure if this was just a fluke of timing, but I did see the
following in the syslog once I selected the logout option to return to
the shell:

> Oct 25 20:53:06 janet kernel: akonadi_agent_l[13126]: segfault at 7f547=
1ee22b0 ip 00007f5471ee22b0 sp 00007fffb47d9bd8 error 15 in libstdc++.so.=
6.0.16[7f5471edc000+8000]
> Oct 25 20:53:06 janet kernel: akonadi_agent_l[13182]: segfault at 7f608=
ff5f2b0 ip 00007f608ff5f2b0 sp 00007fff44487fa8 error 15 in libstdc++.so.=
6.0.16[7f608ff59000+8000]
> Oct 25 20:53:06 janet kernel: akonadi_agent_l[13127]: segfault at 7fa73=
1de02b0 ip 00007fa731de02b0 sp 00007fffff308278 error 15 in libstdc++.so.=
6.0.16[7fa731dda000+8000]
> Oct 25 20:53:06 janet kernel: akonadi_agent_l[13156]: segfault at 7fd27=
fac62b0 ip 00007fd27fac62b0 sp 00007ffff6844fd8 error 15 in libstdc++.so.=
6.0.16[7fd27fac0000+8000]
> Oct 25 20:53:06 janet kernel: akonadi_agent_l[13128]: segfault at 7f7a0=
2f7d2b0 ip 00007f7a02f7d2b0 sp 00007fff68ce3308 error 15 in libstdc++.so.=
6.0.16[7f7a02f77000+8000]
> Oct 25 20:53:06 janet kernel: akonadi_agent_l[13129]: segfault at 7f780=
0b992b0 ip 00007f7800b992b0 sp 00007fff32e2b1a8 error 15 in libstdc++.so.=
6.0.16[7f7800b93000+8000]
> Oct 25 20:53:06 janet kernel: akonadi_agent_l[13200]: segfault at 7f21d=
d4402b0 ip 00007f21dd4402b0 sp 00007fff71f29518 error 15 in libstdc++.so.=
6.0.16[7f21dd43a000+8000]
> Oct 25 20:53:13 janet mdkapplet[13085]: Received SIGHUP (probably an up=
grade has finished), restarting applet.

So, the big question becomes:  If I can startx into the GUI, *why* can't
I set my system to run level 5 without the X desktop error messages in
the log (and a lack of a sign-on window when nobody is logged in)....?

               --Dave


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