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HELP!! I primarily run KDE never even installed Gnome
but I installed Gnome Base and a few Gnome packages to run the Firestarter utility that is Gnome based. now when I type in STARTX the Gnome window manager starts, then things get ugly the background is that speckled gray and the error you are not running a Gnome complient window manager things run but very sluggish and almost unusable
if I type in startkde these errors occur
xsetroot unable to open display
xsetroot unable to open display
xsetroot unable to open display
xsetroot unable to open display
ksplash: cannot connect to X server
aborting $DISPLAY is not set
ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
Ok I Logged in as a different user and the same problem occured so that must mean its not the home directory. its almost like the 2 desktops are tring to merge or somthing but Im looking at the Xclients now with pico I
see references to gnome but then again I'm not sure what to do from there
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