not able to log in to KDE

[John Summerfield]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> after removing kdepim and other stuff, kde updates got
> through :), however, I am still unable to login to KDE
> :(.  I got the following when I typed startkde,
> because startx defaults to GNOME, even though KDE was
> set as the one :(
> 
>

> [olivares at localhost ~]$ cat nokde-1.txt 
> Script started on Fri 14 Dec 2007 07:19:23 PM CST
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ startkde
> xsetroot:  unable to open display ''

startkde is not an alternative to startx

Do you have a problem logging via kdm, gdm or xdm?

_I_ would do so.

What I have done when I found myself running twm (there is very little 
one can do inside twm, except start xterm), is this:
1. killall two.
At this point window decorations (title bar, borders etc) vanish.
2. startkde

An alternative that works (AFAIK) only on RH systems is to login to 
whatever, then run switchdesk

so if startx gets you into gnome, run switchdesk to choose something 
else, then logout and try again.





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John

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