On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:12:02PM +0800, Christian Leng wrote:
Greetings to all.
Last night I tried to install KDE on my system. I had not had any version of KDE installed before. I simply used "pacman -S kde" to install the complete KDE from the REPO. Of course, "kde" was a package group: [rookie@DROWNWESTLAKE ~]$ pacman -Qg kde kde kdeaccessibility kde kdeadmin kde kdeartwork kde kdebase kde kdebase-runtime kde kdebase-workspace kde kdeedu kde kdegames kde kdegraphics kde kdelibs kde kdemultimedia kde kdenetwork kde kdepim kde kdepimlibs kde kdeplasma-addons kde kdesdk kde kdetoys kde kdeutils kde kdewebdev
After the installation, I edited /etc/rc.conf and added the kdm to the daemons. Then I was desperated to find that KDM couldn't be launched correctly(but "startkde" worked well). A message box was displayed on the screen, saying "can't open file: /usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/archlinux-soft-grey". Then I searched the packages and installed the package 'archlinux-themes-kdm' and everything went well.
It seems that the default kdm theme is set to 'archlinux-soft-grey' but the proper package can't be retrieved and installed automatically, i.e. a bug on the dependences of kde.
Whats the version of kdebase-workspace you have installed? If its 4.2.0.3, see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13124 Wait for your mirror to sync and update to 4.2.0.4 -- Greg what to do and what not to do in public :o) http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php