*-Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd
That's the spirit. :-) | I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run | another window manager, but apparently I don't know what I'm doing (very | likely, since I Don't know what I'm doing) or KDE doesn't look to this | line to start itself, which means to me that KDE apparently thinks it's | more than just a window manager. (As you can tell, I'm a bit confused | here.) So the gist of this paragraph is I tried to change to a different | windowmanager to see if the problem was with KDE or something else and I | failed to make the change. I'll try to unconfuse you. The last line in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is just used if nothing else is found. The file you want to edit is /etc/X11/window-managers. It will execute the first winman it finds there. You could also have your own .xsession like this: #!/bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/my_favourite_winman (This might fail if there is some problem with your home dir) | After a while of trying to unlock the authority file (or after I press | Ctrl-C; I'm not sure which action causes it to go on), X tries to start, | but only gets to the dull graphic screen. | | I rebooted, and deleted /home/westk/.Xauthority. Then I tried starting X | again as westk. | | This time I still get the messages about unlocking the authority file, | but when X finally starts it starts up just fine, except that KDE tries | to create several directories in westk (desktop, templates, etc). When I | shutdown X and then restart it, KDE again tries to create the directories. | | Any clues as to what I need to do to fix this? Thanks. Are you sure you mount the partition with you home dir? Put an entry in /etc/fstab to do it automatically. You could also check /etc/passwd, but it should be OK if /home is mounted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]