On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 12:14 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > > > >Thinking aloud, chroot into the suse root dir and run startkde? Or > >set .xinitrx to start your WM of choice? > > > > > > startkde does not work. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # startkde #Yes, I do use root under > ubuntu > xsetroot: unable to open display '' > xset: unable to open display "" > xset: unable to open display "" > xset: unable to open display "" > xsetroot: unable to open display '' > startkde: Starting up... > ksplash: cannot connect to X server
well i don't have kde on this machine, i thought uoi could run startkde from a console and it would kick off X, but I may be wrong. perhaps you need to put startkde into .xinitrc > kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > ksmserver: cannot connect to X server > startkde: Shutting down... > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > Error: Can't contact kdeinit! > startkde: Running shutdown scripts... > startkde: Done. > > .xinitrc is a good hint but is there any easy way to start kdm? Not that > is is strictly necessary but it would be a bit nicer. So you would end up running two copies of kdm on the same machine? (one from ubuntu, one from suse?) - why not try running the suse X startup script /etc/init.d/whatever start We have had this discussion before, but really trying to run two distros at once is of little value IMHO. If you really want to do it keep fiddling :) > > Happy Hacking, > Robert Himmelmann
