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After spending many hours searching for solutions to get the KDE windows manager working on Slackware 13.37 on a VMWare virtual machine. | After spending many hours searching for solutions to get the KDE windows manager working on Slackware 13.37 on a VMWare virtual machine. | ||
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Finally, I discovered the solution! | Finally, I discovered the solution! | ||
It turns out that using the default "composite" extensions will not work on a VM. In order to get KDE to work in a virtual machine, | It turns out that using the default "composite" extensions will not work on a VM. In order to get KDE to work in a virtual machine, | ||
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you have to explicitly disable composite extensions in the xorg.conf configuration file. | you have to explicitly disable composite extensions in the xorg.conf configuration file. | ||
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Save, close, and launch Xwindows using startx, or if your default runlevel is 5, you can just reboot, | Save, close, and launch Xwindows using startx, or if your default runlevel is 5, you can just reboot, | ||
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or you can use telinit 5 from runlevel 3, command prompt only, to switch to runlevel 5 and login to the gui. | or you can use telinit 5 from runlevel 3, command prompt only, to switch to runlevel 5 and login to the gui. | ||
Revision as of 06:46, 8 November 2011
Solution to Get KDE on Slackware Linux Working on a VMWare Virtual Machine
After spending many hours searching for solutions to get the KDE windows manager working on Slackware 13.37 on a VMWare virtual machine.
Finally, I discovered the solution!
It turns out that using the default "composite" extensions will not work on a VM. In order to get KDE to work in a virtual machine,
you have to explicitly disable composite extensions in the xorg.conf configuration file.
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add this to the end of the file:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
Save, close, and launch Xwindows using startx, or if your default runlevel is 5, you can just reboot,
or you can use telinit 5 from runlevel 3, command prompt only, to switch to runlevel 5 and login to the gui.