On Tuesday 03 Feb 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Robin Atwood <robin.atw...@attglobal.net> wrote: > > My first attempt at installing KDE 4.2 so trashed my desktop I had to > > perform a general restore to remove all traces of it. I have a completely > > current 3.5.10 system running, so I thought I would get a situation where > > I could choose which system to login to. In fact, on my second attempt, I > > get my original KDM 3.5 login screen and no new options and when I login > > I do get my original desktop environment, albeit with corrupt konqueror > > tool bars. Any ideas how to enable KDM 4.2 and get the new desktop? > > In my case I uninstalled KDE 3 completely before trying to install KDE > 4.2. Also make sure your xdm has kde-4.2 so it uses the new KDM.
No the problem was that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is not the same as restarting xdm. Doing that, I got the new login screen. -Robin --
