Duncan wrote: > 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 > First, there is an error is in this line: echo "exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde" >> ~/.xinitrc Note the ">>", that is wrong. I have to say that I do not know exactly why the D-Bus documentation said to do this: eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` as you probably know, using "eval" make the command take effect in the current Bash session. Which appears to be what you want. -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ 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.