Slackware 13.37 : KDE Crashes on Startup

Hello, I've written these notes on my blog to help beginners get around a reported problem about KDE crashin upon startup, hope it helps:

Okay, so I’ve tried Slackware Linux 12 and then 13.1 in the past, recently I’ve heard that 13.37 was released and I wanted to give it a try, everything went smooth but when I attempted to start the X Server (in case you’ve chosen KDE4 like me), I got that nasty error clearly showing that xinit (X Window System initializer), lost connection with the X Server upon issuing the startx command :



Well This could be a major turn off for a beginner! But I did some googling and a bit of tweaking and found out how to get around it.

First of all, it’s important to point out that ever since version 7.4 of X.org, the X Server configures itself automatically at boot time, in other words, the /etc/X11/xorg.conf is empty but in some exceptions (like in this case) we need to customize it a little bit.

So we’re gonna create a file under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d (you can do it under /etc/X11/ and some other locations, see the xorg.conf configuration for more details), I use vim so it looks like this



The file (which I’ve named composite, but you can give it any name you want)will be empty, we’ll populate it here in order to disable the composite extension which prevents KDE from starting properly:

Section “Extensions”

Option “Composite” “Disable”

EndSection

Before attempting to re-launch X, make sure that you’ve already created a normal user with the command “adduser” (never start X as root), log on with that user and start X, Voila



Tip : You can change your Window Manager anytime by running xwmconfig at the terminal .

Hi Panthy,

Thanks for this ! I just added your blog to our list:
http://slacklinux.darkbb.com/t9-non-static-list

Regards,