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moltra

Beginner

Posts: 2

Tuesday, July 27th 2004, 4:03pm

help KDE Desktop

I am a new linux user. I installed Mandrake 10 everything was working fine. I was looking at the different desktop programs and some how i ended up with just a prompt. How do i get KDE to start up and use it as a GUI.

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heismark

Beginner

Posts: 27

Wednesday, July 28th 2004, 8:26pm

Re: help KDE Desktop

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Original von moltra

I am a new linux user. I installed Mandrake 10 everything was working fine. I was looking at the different desktop programs and some how i ended up with just a prompt. How do i get KDE to start up and use it as a GUI.

Try issue startx to begin with. Thats the default GUI.

Well inside you can select what default GUI to use.
You may also have icewm installed or windowmaker already.

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moltra

Beginner

Posts: 2

Wednesday, July 28th 2004, 10:32pm

works in Failsafe boot as Telinit 3

works in Failsafe boot as Telinit 3

No idea why it will not work as normal start up HELP????

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Amoeba

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Friday, July 30th 2004, 5:21am

Once you see your login prompt, type

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startkde

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kdm

You probably didn't add wm/de choose to your default boot scripts... I'm not sure how to add your desktop choose to mandrake boot scripts but you will need to do that.

-- rm -fr /etc/whitehouse
-- Gentoo | udev | Xorg 6.8.2 | 2.6.14-r4 | KDE 3.5.0

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