not able to log in to KDE
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 17 13:46:11 UTC 2007
--- John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
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I installed switchdesk, but still cannot login to kde.
What can I do to fix it. In the meantime, I switched
back to gnome.
Thanks,
Antonio
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