kdm & gdm problems (?)

[Fraser Campbell]

On Sunday 11 April 2004 14:54, David J Patrick wrote:

> Well maybe kde3.2 can figure it out, I thought, so "apt-get install kde"
> ! The update process was huge and successfull (no errors) but now when I
> attempt to log into a kde session I get the same fat nuthin' as gnome.
> Helooo icewm.
> What am I doing wrong ?

I haven't looked through the startup in huge detail so there might be a better 
way but this seems to work for me:

Want GNOME?

  echo /usr/bin/gnome-session > ~/.xsession

Want KDE?

  echo /usr/bin/startkde > ~/.xsession

There's also a file ~/.dmrc which is where kdm (and presumably other display 
managers) track your choice of Session.  My .dmrc looks like this:

[Desktop]
Session=kde

Presumably you can set Session=gnome in there if you like.  I've seen the 
blank screen syndrome as well (I'm guessing that's what you see?) and 
the .xsession trick seems to get around it.  When I launch a gnome session I 
get a blank screen the only option seems to be a middle click that gets you a 
menu ... that's with gnome 2.4.

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Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux
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