On Monday 09 August 2004 12:30 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > On Sunday 08 August 2004 21:52:09, Julie Sloan wrote: > > > That was my fault. When I install a system one of the first things > I do is change the display manager from mdkkdm to kdm.
don't tell me how - maybe I'll find it on my own :) (like I don't have enough "finding" to do already LOL) > At the login screen if there's no "menu" > button just use the Ctrl+Alt+Back Space method to restart the X > Server. > > If you find yourself at a black screen with text and a flashing > cursor beside the word login type your user name, strike the Enter > key and supply your user password at the next prompt then strike > Enter again. That will place you in your home directory with a > flashing cursor, type startx and strike the Enter key to resume > graphical mode. Assuming X isn't broken of course. Great! thanks. wish I'd known about startx a month ago. :P I found myself there and since I had never SET a pw I panicked & reinstalled. And the installation discs wouldn't work the second time (wonder what thatwas about?) So I had to wait for new discs. Blah blah blah ancient history. On to newer and better problems... > > > Just for fun open a terminal when you're already in KDE and > > > become super user then type > > > > > > kdeinit > > > > > > and strike the Enter key. Then try to open a directory. > > > > FUN?!? I get this: > > <whack> > > You seem to have skipped the part of the instructions above that > says; "..open a terminal when you're already in KDE and become > super user.." > > It's difficult to know what terminology to use sometimes. I > apologize. no need okay, here's: # kdeinit QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used kbuildsycoca running... > You seem to have either lost contact with the part of the display > that manages the file management system or lost the connection > that it's running on or lost permissions on those directories you > are having trouble accessing. Did you do anything with any files > or 'folders' in your user's space while running as super user? it's possible but not likely. I look in var logs to find out? > through you. But if I say you need to be in SU mode to run a > command successfully it's because I know that method works. okay okay lesson learned. Don't be mad at me. :) > Good luck. > > Charlie thanks for your help. Right now I'm in command-line culture-shock, but luckily I don't have a deadline to get comfortable with it. J -- why linux? because MS is to OS as AOL is to ISP.
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