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How to make linux show the KDE Desktop

gtafreek

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Sunday, February 1st 2004, 2:55am

How to make linux show the KDE Desktop

Ok.... i have mandrake linux 9.2 and I somehow changed something and it made it so I dont have the KDE desktop showing up anymore. It just has commandline. If i type startkde it tells me it cannot show display and can't connect to X server

My question is how to I change it back to KDE mode...?

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Sunday, February 1st 2004, 11:17pm

Try startx instead of startkde.
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Monday, February 2nd 2004, 7:43am

tail piece..

Just wanted to add this to Kenneth's reply. Perhaps you should try:

startx /usr/bin/startkde
or
move ~/.xinitrc (if it exist) to something else, and:
echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc
startx

However, if the same situation arise with kde/gnome/others, then its probably due to your xfree86 settings or graphics card. Did you happen to change anything with X display config?