[kde-linux] KDE-4.2 BRANCH vs KDM from 3.5.x

[James Richard Tyrer]

Is there any reason that I shouldn't be able to run KDE-4.2 BRANCH or 
KDE TRUNK from KDM in KDE-3.5 BRANCH?

Strange things happen.  If I start just KDE-4.2 BRANCH (vt7) it seems to 
work OK.  However, if I have my regular KDE-3.5 BRANCH account started 
(vt7) and use "Start New Session" to run KDE-4.2 BRANCH (vt8) it starts 
up OK but is very unstable.  Usually it crashes the X session when I 
click Mouse Button 2 (right click).

Note that I have a test user account for KDE-4 and the ~/.bash_profile 
script sets all of the necessary environment variables to run KDE-4.2 
BRANCH which is installed in /usr/KDE-4 and Qt which is installed in: 
/usr/local/Troltec.

Since the whole X session crashes, I have no back trace and no idea what 
the cause was.

This problem started when I upgraded Xorg to get compositing to work. 
And it works nicely now with server-1.5.3 and Mesa-7.4.2.  Before the X 
upgrades, I had no problems.

I also note that if I do it the other way with KDE-4.2 in vt7 and 
KDE-3.5 in vt8 that it works OK.  Perhaps I need an exorcist. :-)

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JRT

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