not able to log in to KDE

[Antonio Olivares]

--- 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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