Messed up my graphical login HELP!

[Andrew Konosky]

David Smith wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:23, Andrew Konosky wrote:
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>>I was installing some new graphical login screens, but on of them must 
>>have been a bad download because now when I boot up, the login screen 
>>gives me an error saying that the PNG image is bad. I press OK, but the 
>>error doesn't go away and I can't logon graphically. I can log onto my 
>>system via the command line, but I don't know what the commands are to 
>>do anything. How do I reset the login screen to default via the command 
>>line, or how to I launch Gnome or KDE from command line so I change go 
>>back and change to my old login screen?
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>>Thanks,
>>Andrew
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>Once you log in you could type startx and then change the login screen.
>David
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I start my computer up, then the graphical log-in gves me the error, so 
I press ctrl-alt-f5 to go to the shell prompt. When I type startx I get 
an error that X is already running. So if X is already running, how do I 
start gnome or KDE?