Version: (using KDE 3.5.9) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Dear maintainers, please take a look to the creation of the file "ksmserverrc". I think, it is wrong created or wrong interpreted when starting kde. Hi all, I found out, that there might be in the file ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc the reason for this behaviour. In this file there are some lines, like these: ... ... program7=kmail program8=gnomemeeting restartCommand1=,kwin,-session,117f000001000105000336200000009100000_1120028486_6 78589 restartCommand2=,kmix,-session,10109d7e4e7000111790181000000063050018_1120028481_ 961299 restartCommand3=,ksensors,-session,11c0a80063000109427708100000011470005_11200284 81_964044 restartCommand4=,superkaramba,-session,10109d7e4e7000111531793400000062160031_112 0028481_965242 restartCommand5=,kwalletmanager,-session,10109d7e4e7000111493504800000062170013_1 120028481_965509 res All these applications in this example shall be restarted at next login to kde, but they will not. I tested and found out, that the comma sign before the applications must be removed like this: restartCommand5=kwalletmanager,-session,10109d7e4e7000111493504800000062170013_1 120028481_965509 Removing them manually in this file before starting kde, everything works fine. So I guess, either the comma is set wrong by creating "ksmserverrc" or, at reading the lines are wrong interpreted. I do not know, which application is responsible for it, but your coders should know. It is not a Debian related bug, as I read about this at other distributions, too. The bug is as well related to a Debian bugreport (#491879): the wrong comma before the application "kwin" in "ksmserverrc" inhibits kwin to start. Please feel free to ask for further information. Thanks for all the help ! Cheers Hans-J. Ullrich
Your kdebase is too old. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166598 ***
Hello, I have this bug on my asus eee 901 with Kubuntu 8.04.1 and KDE 3.5.10 too. There are some leading commas in ksmserverrc as descripted above. I use another Computer where this bug doesn't appears. There are the same packages and versions installed as on the Asus eee. If I remove these commas manually before login, KDE gets started complete with all the applications that are listed in ksmserverrc. Maybe you can find some time to look for this bug. Feel free to send a mail for further questions. I hope you can understand what I am writing here because my knowledges in english are not very well. C.Brach