Ronald; Try login in as a normal user, "su -" to root, and run "kcontrol". When you get there, open Look & Feel, and then Behaviour. You're looking for a checkbox to show desktop icons. Check the box, apply, close, and restart X.
I had a similar problem where my mouse pointer would stay "busy", until I found this option. For some reason, KDE keeps looking for the desktop icons even though they're not selected by default. No guarantee that this will work, but odds are that this is causing your problem, assuming that you're running KDE ( I think! ). Grin! Grin! Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/2/2003 at 8:25 AM Ronald J. Hall wrote: >Well, for some odd reason, I can't "startx" with my root account. I can >login, >su, anything like that. If I do a "startx", it goes thru the Nvidia splash >screen, then the KDE startup stuff, then I get a busy cursor that never >resolves. My normal user account works fine. > >This is on a newly installed (not updated) v9.1 download edition of >Mandrake. > >Thanks! > >-- > > /\ > Dark< >Lord > \/ > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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