On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:57:37PM +0100, EagleIce wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> One day when I wanted to boot into Mandrake 7.2 as user on my homebox, I
> couldn't get into KDE2 or HelixGnome or anything else at the login page. As
> root it was OK, so I changed /etc/inittab into runlevel 3, boot again and
> tryed to log into X using 'kde' as command, but it didn't work. Only 'startx'
> works and then I get into Enlightenment, to my great relief I can change
> windowmanager to Icewm from there.
> But I want to use KDE2 and HelixGnome! Is there someone out there who can
> inform me about what I can do about this?
>
> Thank's in advance,
> ei
>
> --
> @~~ EagleIce ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~@
> @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@
>
There are many ways to do this but the way I usually do it is:
create .xinitrc file
at userwhomever# vi .xinitrc
(or whichever editor you prefer)
startkde
or
gnome-session
or
whichever window manager you want
then save the file.
So user SillyWilli has an .xinitrc file with only the preferred WM
this way you can eperiment with different or the same user and Window Managers
I rarely use runlevel 5 and often instead have half a dozen different WM
running at the same time.
Just my eccentric habit :)
William Bouterse
Talkeetna Alaska
