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Just to follow up: I do get a .xsession-errors file, with zero size. For logs, I've looked in /var/log/messages, but must confess I don't know what other logs I should check. :-( btw, the meeting announcement says 6:30pm for general Q&A. Would it be cool if I brought this laptop to show people? Derek Martin said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:23:47PM -0500, Ken Gosier wrote: >> As an addendum, I found a bit about this on kde's web site: >> >> http://www.kde.org/info/faq.html > > I can't say this isn't your problem, but especially since the update > didn't fix it, I doubt it. There could be dozens of reasons why > you're having your problem. > > Look in your logs for anything suspicious. Look in ~/.xsession-errors > if that file exists, for anything out of place. Chances are, this is > caused by some permissions problem, a full filesystem, a stale lock > file, or any number of other things. > > This is one reason (of many) why I prefer X apps (i.e. older, Xt/Xaw > ones) to newer gnome and KDE apps. They tend to produce much better and > useful error messages when something goes wrong, providing you the > possibility of actually fixing the problem. But DTEs are all about > being sexy, and error messages aren't sexy. > > Faster. More flexible. More configurable. 20 years old. > No one can beat xterm. No one. > > THAT's sexy. > > - -- > Derek D. Martin > http://www.pizzashack.org/ > GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+Uvv6HEnASN++rQIRAmz/AKCxgSCAUSUmtKRDLrk4zwoMxVL2EgCgoi05 > sUvXeTrDxHjBSpJ/orFszhM= > =qBCg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Ken Gosier ken at kg293.net ken_gosier at yahoo.com
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