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Old 04-19-2005, 06:46 AM   #1
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kdm starts gnome not kde


Should be an easy one - maybe I am just dumb.....
Just installed slack 10.1 on the machine of my Significant Other who happens to be afraid of command lines (one step at a time). When I boot into run level 3 and startx kde appears as it should. But when I change the default run level to 4 and have the machine use kdm, the gnome desktop appears after login not kde. I've already commented out the lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.4 that have it load gdm by default. So how do I get kdm to load kde?

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Old 04-19-2005, 06:55 AM   #2
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Open a console and, as the user account, run
Code:
xwmconfig
and select KDE as the default desktop manager. Log out and back in again
 
Old 04-19-2005, 07:03 AM   #3
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Thanks for the response.
Just tried that, and I still get gnome as desktop.
 
Old 04-19-2005, 07:04 AM   #4
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hi there,

do you have some file called
Code:
.xinitrc
.xsession
in your home?
if you have, post the content here.

are you sure kde is installed?

regards

slackie1000
 
Old 04-19-2005, 07:09 AM   #5
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Yes kde is installed and as I said it runs on startx from run level 3. ~/.xinitirc has the line startkde at the end, no mention of gnome.

Should I symlink ~/.xinitrc to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.kde maybe?
 
Old 04-19-2005, 07:14 AM   #6
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hi there,

if you have nothing calling gnone (.xinitrc or .xsession) this is weird.
i would suggest move, your file $HOME/.xinitrc somewhere else and try to log again.
also post the following output
Code:
ls -lrt /etc/X11/xinit/
cat /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
regards

slackie1000
 
Old 04-19-2005, 07:26 AM   #7
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slackie, thanks for yer help on this. It is weird....
I just moved ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc.orig rebooted and after logging in in kdm I still get gnome.

/etc/X11/xinit/xnitrc is a symlink to xinitrc.kde

ls -lrt gives me:
Code:
total 20
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 630 2004-06-19 19:16 xinitrc.gnome
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 536 2004-12-18 21:42 xinitrc.kde
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 560 2005-01-22 13:34 xinitrc.fluxbox
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 664 2005-01-23 23:45 xinitrc.twm
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 321 2005-01-23 23:48 README.Xmodmap
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  11 2005-04-18 01:08 xinitrc -> xinitrc.kde
 
Old 04-19-2005, 07:31 AM   #8
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hi there,

ok. you wrote that running in level 3 - startx - kde starts ok. this only happens when you change the runlevel. is this correct?
are you sure that you don't have a .xsession file somewhere? this is the only way to put you into gnome env.
check you home and /etc for a xsession file
Code:
cd $HOME
ls .xsession
cd /etc/X11
find . -name "*xsession*" -print
regards

slackie1000

ps. sorry, i am not in slackware now. everything comes from the top of my head.
 
Old 04-19-2005, 07:35 AM   #9
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doh - I am really dumb. Just figured it out. In the kdm startup screen there is a tab to select the wm. Switched it to kde instead of its default gnome, and now it works. Gimmee fluxbox!!

Thanks!
-geomatt
 
  


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