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

[Dale]

James Tyrer wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>   
>>
>> 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 ~ #
>>
>>     
> I have seen that error while starting Konqueror as root in a Konsole using:
>
> 	xhost + root
> 	su -
> 	{enter password}
> 	DISPLAY=":0.0"
> 	export DISPLAY
> 	konqueror
>
> before I found out what happened to "kdesu".  And you might try that as
> well.  The thing is that I never figured out what the problem was.  In
> fact, I decided that it was a random error since closing that Konsole
> instance and opening another and trying again always worked. :-(
>
>   
>> If it has a error like that, it may not be starting launcher when I 
>> login either.  That could be the problem.
>>
>>     
> I still suspect D-Bus for my problem as well as yours.
>
>   
>> On D-Bus, I havnt't configured anything.  Gentoo takes care of all 
>> that.  It is running and works for everything else. I dunno.
>>
>>     
> I just used the configure files in the BLFS manual.  There is one thing.
>    As it says in the tutorial:
>
> 	http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4.x
>
> 		[Shameless self promotion]
>
> The "/etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf" file must be configured for it to
> find your KDE-4 D-Bus services which are located in:
>
> 	$KDEDIR/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir
>
> If you installed KDE-4 using Gentoo scripts, that should be configured
> but you might want to check it.  So, for example, my KDE-4 is installed
> in: "/usr/KDE-4" so I added this line:
>
> 	<servicedir>/usr/KDE-4/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>
>
> to that file along with the other similar lines.  If you installed KDE-4
> in "/usr" then you probably don't need to add anything.
>
>   

I don't have that directory so apparently Gentoo is set up differently 
with how D-Bus works.  This is what I have by using tab completion of 
course:

root at smoker ~ # cat /etc/dbus-1/s
session.conf  session.d/    system.conf   system.d/
root at smoker ~ # cat /etc/dbus-1/s

I'm in KDE 4 right now so I can't use Konqueror to do some searching 
like I usually would.  This is why I don't want KDE 4 right now.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-)