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On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 19:12 -0400, Christian Loza wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">A dirty way to do this:</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">First, from command line (text) mode, change this file: /etc/inittab</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">change to </FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">id:3:initdefault:</FONT><BR>
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<B>Restart or kill X</B><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">So you won't start in graphic mode (change to id:5:initdefault: to restore it).</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Then, type</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">xinit</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">So, you are going to have X started</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Then, type startkde for KDE</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Iif you want start gnome, xinit, then switchdesk, then choose GNOME, then startx... I don't remember how to do this without this.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Chris</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:55 -0700, Andrew Konosky wrote: </FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">David Smith wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:23, Andrew Konosky wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>I was installing some new graphical login screens, but on of them must </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>have been a bad download because now when I boot up, the login screen </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>gives me an error saying that the PNG image is bad. I press OK, but the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>error doesn't go away and I can't logon graphically. I can log onto my </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>system via the command line, but I don't know what the commands are to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>do anything. How do I reset the login screen to default via the command </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>line, or how to I launch Gnome or KDE from command line so I change go </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>back and change to my old login screen?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>Thanks,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>Andrew</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> </FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>Once you log in you could type startx and then change the login screen.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>David</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I start my computer up, then the graphical log-in gves me the error, so </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I press ctrl-alt-f5 to go to the shell prompt. When I type startx I get </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">an error that X is already running. So if X is already running, how do I </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">start gnome or KDE?</FONT>
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