[kde-linux] kdm oddity

[Paul]

On Tuesday 12 August 2008 4:36:10 Beso wrote:
> 2008/8/11 <pkaplan1 at comcast.net>
>
> > I've been trying to run kde4.1 on kubuntu and have been met with some
> > very strange desktop
> > behavior in a multihead laptop configuration.  I recently discovered that
> > this is related to how kde 4.1 is launched.
> >
> > If I launch 4.1 from the default kdm3 display manager, the kde4.1 desktop
> > is displayed in a (wrong) way that
> > is difficult to describe.  Only parts of the desktop are active.  The
> > content of the laptop lcd are placed on the external lcd and vice versa,
> > but the left/right orientation is correct (as specified in xorg.conf). 
> > One result of this presentation is that the desktop cashew is off screen
> > somewhere.  Also, most attempts to move panels result in 4.1 crashing.
> >
> > In contrast, when I kill kdm and launch kde4.1 with:
> >
> > startx /usr/lib/kde4/bin/startkde
> >
> > I get a well behaved kde 4 desktop.  Interestingly a number of kde 3
> > system tray apps (knetload, smb4k 0.9.3 and guidance-power-manager)
> > appear in the 4.1 system tray (I thought they
> > weren't supposed to be able to run in 4.1).
> >
> > Is this a bug in kubuntu's kdm (s) configuration?  Has anyone else
> > noticed this?  How about with kdm-kde4 or another dm?
>
> have you tried to use kdm4.1 and lauch from that?!

Yes, also gdm.  No difference.  Still problematic launch from a dm.
P