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Old 11-07-2002, 03:42 PM   #1
Peingune
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Need help with getting KDM back


Yeah well.. I started up KDM had my setting the way I wanted it, Wanted to dug deep into the whole GUI thing that linux do and well I went into my control panal folder tht was seating all pretty like on my desktop and well I opened it ( no problem there ) messed with soem of the utils that was in there alittle bit untill I cvame across a util called windows manager and well it said ( no in the same words ) what GUI would you like to use, and well I choose Window Maker and than I put a x in the little check box under the options and clicked on ok and restarted X but when I went to go restart X I get a error and the error says something like " type usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -help blah blah blah " well lets get to the point how can I get my kdm back? what file can I mod to get kdm back?

 
Old 11-08-2002, 10:18 AM   #2
jetblackz
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boot to root in text mode
vi /etc/inittab
edit as follows
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id:5::initdefault
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X:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
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--
startx or reboot
 
  


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