KDE on VMWare

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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!

t turns out that using the default "composite" extentions 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:

<pre>Section "Extensions"</pre> <pre> Option "Composite" "Disable"</pre> <pre>EndSection</pre>

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.

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