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Monday, January 2nd 2006, 11:19pm

can't contact kdeinit

hi everybody, I bet you've had this a thousand times, but sure I can't find a post about it. I'm in Xfce now and I want my K back. when I enter startkde, this is what

xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
xsetroot: unable to open display ´´
ksplash: cannot connect to X server
kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set
WARNING: Connect() failed :: No such file or directory
ksmserver: Cannot connect to Xserver
startkde: shutting down
WARNING: Connect() failed :: No such file or directory
Error: can´t contact kdeinit!
startkde: running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.


however, startx causes no probs. I'm not 100% posivite that this the exact response (coz I copied it from experts-exchange, where I am not registered because it costs a fortune) but it very much looks like it and it certainly says can't contact kdeinit.

ttfn, would be great if s1 could help, thanks.
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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006, 11:10am

there are some additional probs not mentioned above:
system (or whatever) is unable to attach (to?) dcop(server?)
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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006, 11:24am

I think the first errors are more important. It says: "can't open X-server". You need to enter the X-server in the DISPLAY-variable. This can be done with

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export DISPLAY="localhost:0"
startkde
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DISPLAY="localhost:0" startkde


Of course, you need to setup the variable DISPLAY correct: that depends on place where your Xserver is. "localhost:0" is a common value for it if your Xserver also runs locally.

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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006, 12:42pm

whe I do that, nothing happens and I get the same response.

I'm sorry about my ingorance but i don't know whether xserver runs locally nor what it is.
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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006, 1:00pm

If you don't know if it runs locally means in most cases that it does run locally.

The normal way to startup KDE from a console is startx /path/to/kde/bin/startkde. I tried to run startkde from another wm, and (althought it works partially) kde appears as windows in my previous wm.

You can (in most configurations) open two x-sessions. You can open a new KDE-session with the following command:

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startx /path/to/kde/bin/startkde -- :1
Afterwards, you can switch between those sessions with Ctrl+Alt+Fn where Fn is (in my case) F7 and F8, but it depends on your distribution.

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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006, 2:16pm

now whats this?

after reinstalling and rebooting, I get a kubuntu splash screen (I've never seen before) and I can enter my good old KDE - which looks slightly different, but I sure haven't touched it, as in upgrading or anything.

but the mystery is not solved: when I leave the K gui and enter startkde, same things happen (which basically isnt't much)
I don't know where my kde folder is and my find files isn't working properly either.

I suppose what I want now is a way to get rid of all the errors i get for startkde - i don't think their appearing is convenient.
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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006, 3:18pm

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but the mystery is not solved: when I leave the K gui and enter startkde, same things happen (which basically isnt't much)
I don't know where my kde folder is and my find files isn't working properly either.
How do you leave the K gui?

You can find out where KDE is installed by executing

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updatedb
locate startkde
The first step only is neccesairy if you haven't a recent database of file names and the first should be executed as root.

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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006, 4:13pm

k menu - log out - end current session

and I think I've found it. startx /usr/something/startkde does indeed work, resulting in the same kubuntu splash screen as mentioned earlier
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