James Tyrer posted on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:07:26 -0700 as excerpted: > However, these instructions are wrong: > > http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Starting_KDE > > I suggest that you try this for your ~/.xinitrc file: > > ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ > > eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` > > exec startkde > > ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ According to the dbus-launch manpage I have here, the instructions at the given URL (the starting dbus ones) appear to do about the same thing, except that dbus instance should start and stop with the session, which is what's desired if you're doing it that way. Why are they wrong? Here's the (single) line they use (minus the echo to the ~/.xinitrc bit), reprinted here for comparison: exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.