X Desktop Became Default On It's Own

[Edward]

Real Cucumber wrote:

> I have a dual boot system with Redhat 8 on its on
> disk, and it has worked fine for abouta year and boots
> into my normal Ximian desktop but for some reason now
> when I boot up it uses the X desktop and I can't
> figure out why since nothing changed.
> 
> I then tried running the ximian installer through X
> and it fails saying there is no version available for
> my OS (Redhat 8).
> 
> Anybody know how to fix this?

What do you mean by X desktop? Just the plain vanilla X server 
background with a black 'X' cursor?

Is so, sounds like your Window Manager (Gnome, KDE etc.) isn't loading.

Regards,
Ed.