On Thursday 16 Oct 2003 06:56, Fred Wade wrote: > Somehow something got broken. > > kdm seems to run ok, but all selections for the session selection > result in a single console window at login. Typing startkde in the > window starts kde, after which kde appears as before, except for the > extra console window. > > My .xsession-errors file contains: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/twm: another window manager is already running on > screen 0? /usr/X11R6/bin/twm: unable to find any unmanaged screens
Hmmm, I don't think you want to be running twm. Do you have an /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.1.4 file? > > Both .xinitrc and .xsession contain "startkde" > > Typing startx at a console login starts kde. > > Both root and my account exhibit the same behavior. > > Let me know what other info is needed. > The following extract from the Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide may help: Code listing 3.7: /etc/rc.conf -- setting DISPLAYMANAGER # What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm ] DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm Now we just need to make sure that the xdm start-up script is read when booting. Code listing 3.8: Adding XDM script to default runlevel # rc-update add xdm default Reboot, and see if X/KDE comes up! HTH, Peter -- ====================================================================== Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.23_pre7-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ ====================================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
