[kde-linux] KDE 4. Trying to get it working like I need it to.

[Dale]

James Tyrer wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>   
>> James Tyrer wrote:
>>     
>>> Dale wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I log into KDE 4 whenever there is a update to something just to see
>>>> what is working and what issues still remain.  This is hopefully going
>>>> to be the catch all thread for me.  Right now, I have two things that I
>>>> want to work on.  There are others but this is two biggies.  I will say
>>>> that after this last update, it is looking pretty darn cool. 
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Gentoo.  I have both KDE 3.5 and KDE 4 installed.  After
>>>> yesterday, I have the latest updates that are available through Gentoo. 
>>>> Here are the versions of some of the software that may help in this:
>>>>
>>>> sqlite-2.8.16-r4
>>>> sqlite-3.6.18
>>>> kdelibs-4.3.3
>>>> akonadi-server-1.2.1 
>>>> akonadi-4.3.3
>>>>
>>>> This is all the dbus related stuff:
>>>>
>>>> dbus-glib-0.76 (0)
>>>> dbus-qt3-old-0.70 (0)
>>>> dbus-python-0.83.0-r1 (0)
>>>> dbus-1.2.3-r1 (0)
>>>> qt-dbus-4.5.3-r1 (4)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If it matters,
>>>>
>>>> gcc-4.4.2
>>>>
>>>> Problem one, I used to use Konqueror as root to edit config files and
>>>> such.  I have to be root to do this.  I set Dolphin up to run as root
>>>> and it comes up fine.  I even like the look so far.  The last time I
>>>> tried this it wouldn't even open a folder, directory or whatever you
>>>> want to call it.  It does after this latest update today.  I assume that
>>>> got fixed.  However, if I got to a directory like /etc ,which is owned
>>>> by root, and try to open a text file, I get a error.  It won't let me
>>>> copy and paste so it is a screen shot.  It basically complains about
>>>> Klauncher and dbus.  Screen shot is attached as screenshot1.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Does it work if you open a Konsole and start it with:
>>>
>>> 	kdesu dolphin
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Note that if you don't have a link that "kdesu" is, for some strange
>>> reason" buried as: "$KDEDIR/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu".  If you don't have
>>> a link, you might want to make one.  Name it kdesu4 if you still have
>>> KDE-3 on the system.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> It doesn't work.  I get the same error about klauncher and D-Bus.  It 
>> can go through directories tho. 
>>
>>     
> Well the above works for me.  So, I would suspect that you have a D-Bus 
> configuration problem.  How did you install KDE-4?
>
> You could open a Konsole from Konqueror (the one that is running as 
> root) -- "Tools -> Open Terminal" -- and execute:
>
> 	kdeinit4
>
> and see if that helps.
>
>   

This may have helped.  I get this:

root at smoker ~ # kdeinit4
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
root at smoker ~ #

If it has a error like that, it may not be starting launcher when I 
login either.  That could be the problem.

On D-Bus, I havnt't configured anything.  Gentoo takes care of all 
that.  It is running and works for everything else. I dunno. 

In case it matters, I'm running with this version:  kdelibs-4.3.3

Dale

:-)  :-)