I see that you may have a little problem. .
Before i can give you advice on this can you tell me how you installed KDE,
was it off a RPM file
or did you select KDe in the setup of 6.2 as well as gnome as this would
make a difference.
Have you configured your machine to start the X-server on boot up. This can
be done manually or did you select starting X
on startup from the conigurator on install.
The correct way from what I can see of your setup would be to insert the
command "startkde2 in the xinitrc file in the home directory, and the start
X11 with "startx".
why dont you reinstall on the install options, select Gnome and KDE, then on
the xconfig thingy, towards the end of setup, selct for x to start on system
startup, this will give you a really GUI interface in which to select Gnome
or KDE.
Have fun with KDE it is a really good interface, that is eay to setup
lots of Love Jill
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----- Original Message -----
From: OHPC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 3:50 AM
Subject: KDE not working
> I did a fresh install of RedHat 6.2 after using Linux for 8 months
> (Conectiva Linux 4.0, based on RedHat 6.0 I believe).
> The reason I changed to RedHat 6.2 was because I wanted to use a standard
> distro, without compilation problems and error messages because "a library
> was not found", dependencies, etc.
>
> The question now:
> When I type "startx" it is Gnome that appears.
> In my old system I had the following options:
> startx - WindowMaker, AfterStep, FVWM2
> kde - KDE, of course
> gnome - er... gnome of course
>
> Problem is, KDE won't start, nor will AfterStep, or WindowMaker.
> The following messages appear after I type "kde":
>
> kcontrol: cannot connect to X server
> kbgndwm: cannot connect to X server
> kaudioserver: Can't connect to the X Server.
> kaudioserver: Audio system might not terminate at end of session.
> Using old audio server with talk id 768
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xdpyinfo: unable to open display "".
> kwmsound: cannot connect to X server
> krootwm: cannot connect to X server
> kfm: cannot connect to X server
> kpanel: cannot connect to X server
> kwm: cannot connect to X server
>
> When in gnome, if I open a terminal, and type kde, KDE starts working
> _over_ Gnome - i.e., icons for kde and gnome are one over another.
> I liked my old distro because I could choose which WM to use. Now I am
> stuck with gnome only.
> Any idea? Should I edit xinitrc? How?
>
> Thanks in advance, guys.
>
>
> Otto Pintiaski
>
>
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