I missed quite a bit of the action around here the past many months and am behind the times in many ways. Today I was reviewing a TDE xsession log and saw several things I know nothing about. I don't know if these are bugs or normal messages.

I started X/TDE from the command line as a non-root user in a virtual machine.

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TDE, especially kdeinit, fills the log with many messages. I don't recall that in KDE3. Is this by design now? Is there a way to disable most of the messages? The messages will prove useful with troubleshooting, but I'm asking nonetheless.

================================================ reading '/home/users/tester/.kompmgr.pid' as kompmgr pidfile ================================================

I recall that TDE has some kind of compositing engine now. I presume this message is related. Yet I don't see anything in Control Center to manage any compositor. Seems if I don't have any such feature enabled I should not see messages for pid files.

Where do I find the options for this compositor?

================================================ kdeinit: Shutting down running client. kdeinit: Killing kdeinit/klauncher. kdeinit: Launched DCOPServer, pid = 2155 result = 0 --------------------------------- It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/users/tester/.DCOPserver_hairy__0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- ================================================

As I am starting my TDE for the first time today, with no saved session, what client is running and needs to be killed?

Also, as I have no $HOME/.DCOPserver* files and I know that TDE is not already running, why do I receive that message?

================================================ Cannot connect socket '/var/run/xdmctl/dmctl-:0/socket'. ================================================

Is this an informational or error message? I'm guessing the latter because that directory has root:root 755 permissions. What is trying to connect to that socket. How do I fix?

================================================ xrdb: colon missing on line 359, ignoring line ================================================

Is this from TDE?

================================================ Could not load library! Trying exec.... ================================================

I see this message several times but can't tell what might cause this directly. The message is from kdelibs/kinit/kinit.cpp.

================================================ trying to create local folder /opt/trinity/share/config/kicc: Permission denied trying to create local folder /opt/trinity/share/config/kdisplay: Permission denied ================================================

Local folders are stored in $HOME, not /opt/trinity. These messages were generated when I was browsing the Control Center. Why are these config files being created in /opt/trinity rather than $HOME/.trinity?

================================================ QLayout "unnamed" added to QFrame "unnamed", which already has a layout QLayout "unnamed" added to QFrame "unnamed", which already has a layout QLayout "unnamed" added to QFrame "unnamed", which already has a layout ================================================

What might be causing this?

Thanks!

Darrell