[NTLUG:Discuss] DCOP server & KDE 3.

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Fri Nov 8 17:09:57 CST 2002


MadHat wrote:

(Hey - I didn't say it was *good* advice - just what I'd found from researching
the problem :-).

>>  13) Make sure your search path includes /opt/kde3/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin
>>      and EXCLUDES /opt/kde2/bin
> 
> Does suse use /opt?

Not usually - but for KDE3 it evidently does.

>>...actually, what worked for me was changing my '/etc/passwd' so that my
>>user account starts up in bash instead of tcsh (which is my preference),
>>and then nuking a *bunch* of files in my home directory and in /tmp.
>>
>>Using tcsh is the one thing I'd changed from the default installation...but
>>I still don't see how it was the source of the problem.
>>
>>Nobody mentioned that *ANYWHERE*.  I eventually realised when I found I
>>could start KDE as root - AND using my son's user account (both of which
>>are started into bash instead of tcsh.
>>
> 
> well.... how are you starting X?

Originally, from the KDE login manager thingy - which SuSE handily
configured to run on startup.   When I started getting these DCOP
problems (sometime after I changed my login shell evidently), I tried
everything I could think of - ended up doing a ctrl-alt-F1 to get a
console and then killing off X so I could restart it with 'startx'.

When I did that as my normal user account, I just got DCOP errors - but
I could still start as root and (as I belatedly discovered) and other user
with /bin/bash as their login shell in /etc/passwd.

Unfortunately, I really hate working in bash - I've been using csh/tcsh
ever since the late 1970's and I'm too old to adapt!

> Maybe it has someting to do with an
> ENV that is or is not getting set because the script are designed for
> bash and you know that export does not work in tcsh...  just an idea.

Right - but 'setenv' does the same thing as 'export' and I'm pretty sure
I have everything set up the same.

If only one of these stupid programs would leave a detailed log file - or
have a 'verbose' option - or just a more explicit error message.

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