Hi all,A "fish"???? Are you certain that this is the KDM login screen?
Well, I've tried the info I've found with google and every source I can...but, no happiness.
I am running KDE on OpenBSD 3.4.
X seems to be installed and working. When the machine boots the X login screen comes up with the nice gui and a puffy fish graphic.
So far so good.
If I login, I get a an xterm window.
if I then type startkde, the KDE desktop is added to the screen.
But, if I create a .xsession file and put the startkde line in it.
Exactly what an: "~./xesssion" file does is system/distro dependent, but I would put the full path in it. E.G.:
/usr/kde3/bin/startkde
where the path is system/distro dependent.
No xterm starts and I get a box saying that "Couldn't start kdeinit" and an ok button. Clicking this button returns me to the puffy screen.
After you login with the graphical login, it runs a script: "Xsession". It is this script that determines how the X session starts. This script also needs to see that you PATH and other environment variables are set correctly. In Linux, this can be done by having it be a login script or directly sourcing: "/etc/profile" & ("$HOME/.bash_profile" | "$HOME/.profile") -- unless you are using Bash, it would be: "$HOME/.profile".
So I ssh in from another machine and rename the .xsession file and we're back to the way it was.
You can probably just login to a console to make changes in the GUI login.
Now what I'd like is the choice of starting a plain xterm session OR kde after I enter username and password OR a none GUI command line.
You need to check and see what: "Xsession" is doing.
The puffy login screen is fine with me.
This is probably not the KDM login screen.
So, nothing that I've googled has given me much in the way of concise guidance here.
- Could someone point me to docs that have complete details (everything I've found so far is a bit of this, a bit of that) of setting up kde.
First you need to see that you are using KDM. Check to see that KDM is being called when the system boots.
- Could someone explain or point to docs which show the complete sequence of what goes on to start and xterm session/KDE session. (i'e. what scripts and their sequence at login are run...or expected/optioned, what shell variables are involved.)
After you login, it executes:
Xsession <Session type>
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