Running Gnome or KDE on AIX 5L

[franksoprano]

How do I go about starting up the GNOME or KDE enviroment on my RS6K running AIX 5L? I have all 4 cd's installed, and cannot figure out how to start-up either of these desktop enviroments..

If anyone has some procedures for me to follow I would greatly appreciate it!!

Thanks In Advance

Frank Soprano-

 

[RudiVVC]

The README.TXT says:

1.
kill all CDE desktop-sessions

ps -ef | grep dtlogin | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill -9


2.
Start KDE-processes:

/opt/freeware/kde/bin/kdm

This worked just fine on my machine.

If you want to keep this settings after reboot of the machine, you have to change your "inittab".


HTH
Rudi

 

[franksoprano]

Thanks! I'll give it a shot and let you know how I make out!!

Thanks Again!

Frank Soprano

 

[AIXSPadmin]

Start and Problems in using KDE
In some cases, the CDE desktop is already running §-(( .
The (very elegant ) ) way to stop CDE without reboot mentioned by IBM is: kill command to the X server (cat /var/dt/Xpid ; kill -term process-id; you can go back to CDE with "/usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon&quot.

Then you have to create your own $HOME/.xinitrc file (copy from /usr/lib/X11/defaults/xinit/xinitrc ) and remove all lines containg start directives of applications and the window manager (near the end of the file).
Include instead the "/opt/kde/bin/startkde" command.
Include /opt/kde/bin in your PATH and re-source your login script.
Run "xinit" and wait.

Also on the fastest IBM machines the KDE start will be slower then under Linux (static linked binaries !).
Sometimes KDE hangs after clicking the logout button. Mostly it occurs if not all applications are closed.
In this case you have to kill your session manually (with the STRG+ALT+BACK combination or from network via telnet)

 

[AIXSPadmin]

The following link is an IBM Redbook and it describes how-to install and run both Gnome and KDE.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg246033.pdf