Re: Selecting a window manager

2004-12-28 Thread Barry
Thank you for the replies, I played around with the Mandrake setup and got a gui startup screen this time. Selecting kde crashed kde but with a msg 'no write authority for .ICEauthority'. I started icewm, changed my permissions and restarted X and kde = success. Barry -- Barry w

Re: Selecting a window manager

2004-12-24 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:16:01 +1300 Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A while ago I set up my Mandrake8.2 to automatically start Icewm. > > I have now decided to revert to a runlevel 3 startup so I can start a > selected wm with 'startx','startx icewm' or 'startx kde'. Now only > icewm will

Re: Selecting a window manager

2004-12-24 Thread Martin Bähr
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:16:01PM +1300, Barry wrote: > A while ago I set up my Mandrake8.2 to automatically start Icewm. > I have now decided to revert to a runlevel 3 startup so I can start a > selected wm with 'startx','startx icewm' or 'startx kde'. Now only > icewm will start irrespective

Selecting a window manager

2004-12-23 Thread Barry
A while ago I set up my Mandrake8.2 to automatically start Icewm. I have now decided to revert to a runlevel 3 startup so I can start a selected wm with 'startx','startx icewm' or 'startx kde'. Now only icewm will start irrespective of the command given. I presume there is a . file controlling