This is not true. I have reported several times that Kde2 beta4 deletes all
windows-managers (not only sawfish or gnome) from gdm or kdm.
After installing Kde2 you can't log in any other windows-manager than
kde2.
----- Original Message -----
From: Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: liste.cooker
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Sawfish has gone blank
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Lawrence Murphy) writes:
>
> > I am not certain what has gone wrong here: I upgraded to KDE 1.9x and
> > the gnome-*-1.2 rpms, and also added librep, rep-gtk and the sawfish
> > files and have since upgraded to XFree86 4.0 (all from 7.2b), but now
> > my gnome desktop refuses to load (from either kdm or gdm) and KDE will
> > not configure most applications. (both KDE and Gnome are using fresh
> > user config files) If I start in Failsafe with an xterm window and
> > start sawfish from the command line, the screen is blank. (no panels or
> > desktop icons)
>
> Strange, nobody has reported such behaviour..
>
> Try to upgrade ORBit, gtk+, XFree86 4.0.1 (which is much more stable
> than XFree86 4.0)..
>
> Could you try :
> xinit /usr/bin/startgnome
>
> Are you able to load kde ?
>
> Try also to completely remove your .gnome* directory
>
> --
> Fr�d�ric Crozat
> MandrakeSoft
>
