Hmmm
I did a groupremove of the X Windows System. It erased X and KDE as expected. Figuring out that in order to have KDE I need to have X, I did a groupinstall of KDE. Kdebase and all its gang was installed, but X was left out!!!????
When I did 'startx', the systems could not because X was missing.
I would have thought that kdebase needed xorg-server-x11 at the very least to launch kde. How come they are not linked together?
On 7/5/07, Javier Perez pepebuho@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm
I did a groupremove of the X Windows System. It erased X and KDE as expected. Figuring out that in order to have KDE I need to have X, I did a groupinstall of KDE. Kdebase and all its gang was installed, but X was left out!!!????
When I did 'startx', the systems could not because X was missing.
I would have thought that kdebase needed xorg-server-x11 at the very least to launch kde. How come they are not linked together?
perhaps because X applications can run through X forwarding and not only local X server
I have a computer without X which I uses SSH X11 forwarding when I need some GUI to configure some stuff easily ..
Hikaru Amano wrote:
On 7/5/07, Javier Perez pepebuho@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm
I did a groupremove of the X Windows System. It erased X and KDE as expected. Figuring out that in order to have KDE I need to have X, I did a groupinstall of KDE. Kdebase and all its gang was installed, but X was left out!!!????
When I did 'startx', the systems could not because X was missing.
I would have thought that kdebase needed xorg-server-x11 at the very least to launch kde. How come they are not linked together?
perhaps because X applications can run through X forwarding and not only local X server
I have a computer without X which I uses SSH X11 forwarding when I need some GUI to configure some stuff easily ..
Right, otherwise, just $ yum groupinstall base-x to get the core/local X server-n-friends to re-install.
-- Rex
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:31:28 -0500, Javier Perez wrote:
I did a groupremove of the X Windows System. It erased X and KDE as expected. Figuring out that in order to have KDE I need to have X, I did a groupinstall of KDE. Kdebase and all its gang was installed, but X was left out!!!????
When I did 'startx', the systems could not because X was missing.
I've run into the same thing. I don't get the logic, either.
-Thufir
Javier Perez wrote:
Hmmm
I did a groupremove of the X Windows System. It erased X and KDE as expected. Figuring out that in order to have KDE I need to have X, I did a groupinstall of KDE. Kdebase and all its gang was installed, but X was left out!!!????
When I did 'startx', the systems could not because X was missing.
I would have thought that kdebase needed xorg-server-x11 at the very least to launch kde. How come they are not linked together?
X is a client/server application. The X server does not need to be running on the same machine as the client. One example of this is a terminal server with a bunch of thin clients acting as X terminals. KDE runs on the terminal server, but the X server is running on the clients. You never start an X server on the terminal server.
One thing that makes these discussions confusing is that the X server is the part that manages the keyboard, pointing device (mouse) and display. So the X server runs on the client machine. The KDE desktop is an X client program. So you have the client program running on the terminal server, and the X server running on the client machine. It takes extra effort to keep then straight.
Mikkel