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nothing starts after KDE login

Kai Lorenz

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Tuesday, May 13th 2003, 11:18am

nothing starts after KDE login

Dear Fellows,

for some days I'm working to fix a problem I may have caused by configuring and erasing in a too clumsy way.
I've tried to install the kisdnwatch and noticed that some qt and kde libraries didn't have the necessary version. So I changed my apt/sources.list by inserting some mirror URLs and made an upgrade from KDE 2.2.2 to 3.1.1a. Afterwards the KOffice didn't work and Opera and OpenOffice had got some problems - etc pp. After some days of work without success I decided to remove and purge all of my Qt and KDE packages to start an (binary) installation from scratch.
But after doing so (with dselect) I can't work with the KDE desktop. When I login via the KDE login screen the login window disappears and the nice background of the window is shown. Nothing else will happen. I can open a menu window by mouse click but it is the tcwm, only useful to shutdown the X session.

It would be really nice if anybody could give me a hint where to look for configuration settings, access privileges, PAM settings etc. pp. - or at least where I can find some error logs.

Thank You very much

Kai Lorenz

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Tuesday, May 13th 2003, 1:11pm

It sound like chooser cannot find your kde installation.
Can you open a terminal window and run chooser?(/etc/X11/chooser.sh)
This will show what is available as window managers.
Check your path point to your kde/bin directory. (cat $PATH)
Depending on your distro you could use the config tools to set it up.
(Yast for Suse etc.)