booting into gnome instead of kde

HermanTheSheep · 04-29-2005, 08:42 AM

hey guys i am running slackware 10.1 with KDE set as the default window manager

ive changed /etc/initab to set default runlevel to 4 to boot straight into KDE

but it booted into Gnome, so i edited /etc/rc.d/rc.4 and commented out the section that starts Gnome, rebooted and it went back into Gnome again!

what am i missing?

thanks for the help

xushi · 04-29-2005, 08:51 AM

have you tried
xwmconfig
?

mdarby · 04-29-2005, 08:51 AM

or editing ~/.xinitrc?

HermanTheSheep · 04-29-2005, 08:57 AM

xwmconfig has kde set as the default window manager

as for .xinitrc ive never used this before, there isnt one in my home dir but in /root it contains

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

# Start the window manager:
startkde

Nobber · 04-29-2005, 09:55 AM

This is confusing. If you're using runlevel 4, then kdm or gdm should start at the end of the boot process, giving you the option to choose between KDE and GNOME. Is that not what's happening?

HermanTheSheep · 04-29-2005, 10:35 AM

ok i got it now,

the first time i booted into run level 4 it went straight to a Gnome login, so i removed gdm from /etc/rc.d/rc.4 and rebooted, i never noticed the menu button to choose KDE and because it had went into Gnome the first time it was set to load previous session so it kept booting into Gnome.

thanks for your help