kde4 problem

[Don Levey]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Don Levey <fedora-list <at> the-leveys.us> writes:
>> proper resolution (though it didn't do anything).  But then I selected 
>> something like "Compiz Manager".  I was told to restart the X server, 
>> which I did - and now after logging in all I get is a white screen..  I 
>> can get to a console session, but if I try to restart the X session I 
>> get the white screen again (or worse, a black screen, in which I can 
>> type but nothing happens).  There seems to be a compiz process still 
>> running, and hogging lots of CPU.
> 
> So it looks like you switched to Compiz and that isn't working properly.
> 
> If you used the Compiz Switcher which is part of compiz-kde, you should have a 
> file called .kde/env/kdewm.sh in your home directory. Remove that file and you 
> should end up with KWin running again.
> 
> If that doesn't work or if you didn't have that file in the first place, create 
> that ~/.kde/env/kdewm.sh file and write this into it:
> KDEWM=kwin
> export KDEWM
> 
The file was there; I moved it out of the way and KDE now works.  Thank you!

  -Don