Re: [Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up]
RReed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Press your.. ahem.. non-start key.. the geared K one at lower left go to KDE control centerapplications...login manager..sessions..then i believe you want to choose console only R Reed === And remember to do it as "root". Otherwise you'll be denied access to the "login manager" ;-)
Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up
I would like to thank both of you for helping me to solve the problem. Sorry I was so slow to "get it". It is all fixed up and working fine now. Murray Strome RReed wrote: Press your.. ahem.. non-start key.. the geared K one at lower left go to KDE control centerapplications...login manager..sessions..then i believe you want to choose console only R Reed Murray Strome wrote: Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not.
RE: [newbie] KDE Messed up
I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up
Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
FW: [newbie] KDE Messed up
-Original Message- From: Aaron deRozario Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:25 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE Messed up Not a problem - I'll have a look next time I'm in front of Linux. For the moment I'll have another go at giving you a very bad description of what to look for. The programme can be launched from the panel. The launch button has an icon that is a computer monitor with a green thing over it. When launched it has a series of expandable/collapseable icons down the left hand side. Some of these expandable/collapseable icons includes Desktop (which expands to show Background etc), Themes etc. The one you are looking for is the very first of these collapseable/expandable icons. It expands to show a Login Manager (or similar), an option for configuring the File Manager and an option for configuring the Web Browser. It is the first of these that you need to select. Now I know this description is as vague as my last one, but maybe someone on the mailing list will read this and go "Yeah I know what he's going on about the name of teh programme is and what you do is " In the mean time I'll check the Linux box tonight and write it all down for you. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Aaron deRozario Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479
RE: [newbie] KDE Messed up
Just had a quick look at the screenshots on the KDE home page. The programme I am talking about is the KDE Control Centre. It can be launched from the panel or from the "K" button. Once it is started you should be able to find teh section I was telling you about (Login Manager). THe name might not be the same but it is self-explanatory. Unless you are logged in as root, it will not give you access. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 10:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Aaron deRozario Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
Re: [newbie] KDE Messed up
Press your.. ahem.. non-start key.. the geared K one at lower left go to KDE control centerapplications...login manager..sessions..then i believe you want to choose console only R Reed Murray Strome wrote: Hi -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration program which has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all the items in the list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed to have a configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere, I get a message which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team". Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look and help me find the item. Thanks. Murray Strome Aaron deRozario wrote: I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem. The Mandrake login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE login screen and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident. If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program (sorry I can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program you use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel). In there you will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you will find a whole heap of things you can configure. You will find a section on Shutdown permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown button back on the login screen. There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called kde (otherwise kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker. I did this creating two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while (proabably a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc). I'm not quite sure why that happened. There is also an option that gives an icon for various users. This was not part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for Caldera. It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly slow). There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup screen wallpaper etc). Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't have a linux box in front of me. Hope this helps. Aaron -Original Message- From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55 To: LINUX Newbie Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up Can anyone help me with this one? I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the system locked up and nothing could get it going except to restart it. After this, the initial box in KDE is messed up. Until this happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up possibilities (such as KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button which allowed one to shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced with a similar box with a large "24" at the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options and no button for shutdown/restart. How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things which fail are the sound card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer FX-3D (1816)) and I get a message mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount NFS system. I don't know if these are related or not. Murray Strome -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427 -- Murray and Diane Strome 1275 Burnside Road West VICTORIA BC V8Z 1P3 Canada Phone: (250) 479-6448 Fax: (250) 727-3427
