XOrg7 DEPENDS

[Kok, Auke]

Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> Friday 22 of June 2007 22:15:19 Kok, Auke wrote:
>> Chad 'v3rt1g0' Kittel wrote:
>>> On 6/22/07, Kok, Auke <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
>>>> this *has* to go. There is no reason to pull in KDE-only dependencies
>>>> into the base XOrg7. Please remove and put these dependencies in qt3 or
>>>> something, where they belong.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I'd like to see xterm, twm and xclock added to XOrg7, so that the
>>>> default 'startx' actually works OOTB.
>>> I don't think these three depends belong in the XOrg7 module's DEPENDS
>>> file.  They belong in the xinit module's DEPENDS file, where 'startx'
>>> actually comes from.  xinit is a depends of XOrg7, so it will be
>>> brought along.
>> that would be perfect.
> 
> or maybe just remove xterm, twm and xclock from xinit xinitrc?

lets delete konsole from KDE too....

> and replace it with startkde for example, or other desktop?

no, xinit gives startx. startx is for base X
- startxfce4 is for xfce4
- startkde is for kde

> I remember when I installed X and kde as Lunar newbie I encountered 2 errors:
> 
> 1) X can not start because of missing xorg.conf (there was no info from lunar 
> what to do - after googling I discovered x must be configured by some X 
> configure tools). lin after installing X could:
> 	a) execute one of x configurators if xorg.conf is not found
> 	b) copy default preconfigured xorg.conf (I can make profile for Nvidia)
> 	c) display message: xorg.conf missing - please make it.
> Now after lining X I just copy xorg.conf from previous Lunar installation.

no, XOrg7 does not need an xorg.conf file (and if it does, you should file a 
bugreport).

> 2) startkde returns error because of no screens found or something like this.
> After try & error probing removed from /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc all xterm, 
> twm and xclock texts to replace them with startkde.

then fix KDE to include the proper stuff, nor XOrg7.

> Solving 1 & 2 in any easy way for beginner will make Lunar more userfriendly.

(1) is already solved, and (2) can be solved in KDE itself.

Auke