On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:12:02PM +0800, Christian Leng wrote: > Greetings to all. > > Last night I tried to install KDE on my system. I had not had any > version of KDE installed before. > I simply used "pacman -S kde" to install the complete KDE from the > REPO. Of course, "kde" was a package group: > [rookie@DROWNWESTLAKE ~]$ pacman -Qg kde > kde kdeaccessibility > kde kdeadmin > kde kdeartwork > kde kdebase > kde kdebase-runtime > kde kdebase-workspace > kde kdeedu > kde kdegames > kde kdegraphics > kde kdelibs > kde kdemultimedia > kde kdenetwork > kde kdepim > kde kdepimlibs > kde kdeplasma-addons > kde kdesdk > kde kdetoys > kde kdeutils > kde kdewebdev > > After the installation, I edited /etc/rc.conf and added the kdm to the > daemons. Then I was desperated to find that KDM couldn't be launched > correctly(but "startkde" worked well). A message box was displayed on > the screen, saying "can't open file: > /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/archlinux-soft-grey". Then I searched the > packages and installed the package 'archlinux-themes-kdm' and > everything went well. > > It seems that the default kdm theme is set to 'archlinux-soft-grey' > but the proper package can't be retrieved and installed automatically, > i.e. a bug on the dependences of kde. Whats the version of kdebase-workspace you have installed? If its 4.2.0.3, see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13124 Wait for your mirror to sync and update to 4.2.0.4 -- Greg what to do and what not to do in public :o) http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php
