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osat3ch · 01-14-2004, 11:11 PM

I think you have logged into the windowmaker gui

when you are logging in are you already in a gui or are you using the commandline?

Computergirl24 · 01-15-2004, 07:28 AM

well, there is a gui screen but i can't login to that for some reason. i select my login from a list, then type in my passwd. it waits a few minutes, goes to a blue screen with the x cursor, then goes back to the login screen. so i switch to one of the other consoles and i login there. so yeah, i login at the command prompt, not the gui.

osat3ch · 01-15-2004, 08:28 AM

if your computer goes right to the command line try typing KDE load. but if you are selecting your username in a gui by clicking on it. and entering your PW in a field below it there should be a dropdown menu below the PW field that lets you pick your gui. to follow the advice given by other users here you should pick KDE.

quatsch · 01-15-2004, 11:56 AM

This is confusing. Can you login or not? You say in one of the posts that you login and get a blue screen with a clock and nothing else.

Computergirl24 · 01-15-2004, 12:04 PM

yeah it is confusing. i can not login to a gui screen. i can login to a command prompt, but the gui login is not working.

quatsch · 01-15-2004, 12:30 PM

when do you see that blue screen with a clock? If it's a text login, you won't see any blue screens unless you manually start X with the command
startx

have you tried
startx /usr/bin/startkde
from the command line after text login?

courtrrb · 01-15-2004, 04:24 PM

It sounds like he dosn't have the correct permissions for his user account. This has happend to me when I upgraded or added a user to an already existing account directory. When you login it will log you right back out.

Computergirl24 · 01-15-2004, 05:58 PM

yeah, i dont know what i did, but now it's working. i'm running kde, i just need to know how to add a user to a group such as games. it would also be nice to know how to switch to gnome if i want to.

osat3ch · 01-15-2004, 06:12 PM

this is what I did to fix a similar sounding problem with mandrake9.2 if you see something similar this may help.

while KDE is running

klick on the K in the lower left
click configuration
click configure your computer
enter your root password
click on boot
click on drakboot
check "launch graphical environment when your system starts"
click OK

courtrrb · 01-16-2004, 06:59 AM

To change or add a user to a group you can use webmin or the user manager in the Mandrake Control Center.

Computergirl24 · 01-16-2004, 10:37 AM

ok,i dunno what i had done to get it to work, but now its not working. i don't know, i tried startx, but it didn't work. i had it working, and i had it so that i could sign in to kde, or gnome, but now it doesn't do the gui login at all. how do i fix this again? and what may i have done to get it to work in the first place?