cant get to kde desktop in SUSE 9.1

shivaan · 02-18-2005, 06:56 AM

hi

i have just installed SuSE 9.1 personal on a dual boot system with win XP. When i start SUSE i get to a command prompt, how do i get to the desktop.

Thanks
Shivaan

musicman_ace · 02-18-2005, 07:27 AM

type startx

Gkarfield · 02-18-2005, 07:30 AM

hum hum

I have freebsd, and i get into KDE by this
$ xinit
$startkde

or if you have the following line in .xinitrc:
'startkde'

u just type 'xinit'

(i also have suse 9.1 but never had that problem, or I was newbie when I had it , and re instalt suse)

cheers

Gkarfield · 02-18-2005, 07:34 AM

sory if you type:
'startx'

u get the X windows
its a bit strange if u r used to windows, it would be a little tough.

by the way, try 'xclock'
(when ur inside kde or X)

bye

shivaan · 02-18-2005, 08:01 AM

thanks for the help i can get to the desktop now

abisko00 · 02-18-2005, 08:16 AM

If you would like to boot directly into KDE, you may change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 3 to 5:

Code:

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:

JaseP · 02-18-2005, 11:34 AM

It's odd that you didn't come up with a graphical login at first (unless you selected not to have a graphical login during installation).

What graphics card or chipset are you using???

SuSE, by default, uses KDM as a graphical login manager. If you have further problems,... please post them.

shivaan · 02-18-2005, 01:48 PM

thanks abisko00 i did what you said and the kde desktop loads automatically

@JaseP i think i did accedentally set it not to have a graphical login