first, i cannot just log into gnome like i could before. what i did was that i tried to tell it to run in X visualization or something (I went to the "configure your computer" and went to system and display properies and switched from display in mandrake to X) because i thought this was something that people did, but whatever it screwed up a lot of things. now i cannot log in to gnome at all. it just starts me out in a console mode, and then i type startgnome and it says i cannot run that from the console, and then i run startx and it gives me KDE and then i log out and it goes back to console mode. i haven't checked what runtime level it is at, but i suspect that it has changed, because i read that is what could affect this. the other thing is that i lot of the things that i had in linux (toolbars and settings) are now gone, but SOME are there. so I'm like, I fucked it up I leave it alone and go do shit in windows, but now my personal toolbars and quick toolbar are gone in windows. obviously a simple click will bring them back, but why is this happening, and how is this happening, and how can i fix it? thanks for your help in advance.


i just wanted to mention also that i went back into KDE and back to "configure your computer" and to change it back to mandrake visualization and it did, but it didn't matter.

anyone, anything, at least post if you have a question that would help you