Hi,
Thanks very much. That helped me realise what went wrong.It gave a command not
found error... Basically the kde packages hadn't got installed completely.. Now it is
working fine after I did a full reinstall.
Thanks
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Paul wrote:
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> On 29 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Go to your home directory (cd <return>)
> There you create a file called .Xclients (include the 'dot')
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> In it you write
>
> exec startkde
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> Save the file, restart X and you should be fine.
>
> Paul
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> > I am very very new to Linux..
> >I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on my computer, but I am not
> >able to see the KDE environment. Since I had given the option of graphical
> >login, my first login prompt is somewhat graphical, but not entirely so.
> >After logging in, I get a screen where there are 2 shell prompt windows on a blue
>background and
> >nothing else. I can get GUI programs like Netscape running from here but the
> >windows cannot be resized, moved etc..
> >During the testing phase of configuring X during install, it did correctly
> >display the test screen so I'd assumed that X configuration went off well.
> >
> >My video card is a 3dfx voodoo banshee card with 16 MB Video RAM. and my monitor is
>a Philips 105s. Has anyone encountered similar problems with this card/monitor ?.
> >
> >It would be great if anybody could help me with some suggestions.
> >
> >Kindly forgive me if this looks like a silly post. But I guess I could start
>figuring out things only when the whole thing is up and running..
> >
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