Gnome replaced KDE

gepesz · 08-04-2005, 01:31 PM

Hello gurus,

A strange thing happened to me. On my Debian Sarge, I wanted to install k3b but to do that I needed to upgrade pretty much all X packages to the latest 'stable' release. When everything was done I fired up X and to my surprise I was presented with Gnome, not KDE as before.

How can I get KDE back? What shall I do?

Any help is appreciated.

punt · 08-04-2005, 01:35 PM

try typing switchdesk kde at a regular text prompt

reddazz · 08-04-2005, 02:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by punt
try typing switchdesk kde at a regular text prompt

Thats a Fedora/Redhat specific command so won't work on Debian.

PMorph · 08-04-2005, 02:55 PM

Try this as root:

update-alternatives --config x-session-manager

duvalgo · 08-04-2005, 03:30 PM

This sounds like a good problem to me. I always liked Gnome better. It seems to run faster.

otchie1 · 08-05-2005, 06:11 AM

in your home directory you have a file called .xinitrc

vi into it (or use gedit) and make sure the last line reads

startkde

sometimes you need to check for a file called .xsession and one called .Xclients aswell to make sure there aren't multiple instructions. I'd delete those and just stick with ~/.xinitrc myself.

gepesz · 08-05-2005, 10:08 AM

I don't have switchdesk or ~/.xinitrc on my machine. I can try the update-alternatives option though, thanks. Anything else I can try?

otchie1 · 08-05-2005, 10:56 AM

then just make a file called .xinitrc and let it consist of one line

startkde

problem sorted

gepesz · 08-09-2005, 10:41 AM

Problem solved. I created a file ~/.xsession with 'startkde' in it and I got kde back.

Thanks everybody!