On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:03:32 +1200 anton disseminated the following:
Big hairy things!
I can't disagree with that ;-)
ARGGGHHHHH! My one real wish with 3.2 was to put the KDM blues (having to use GDM) behind me. Alac, alas, not to be! The piece of )*(&)*^ still doesn't work (for me)! It will log me into a desktop now (before, with 3.1.3, not even that), but only Ice.
This is just a kludge til you get it figured out, but what I would recommend is not having X start at boot, and just using an .xinitrc in your home dir to tell X what desktop to load when you type 'startx'. Actually, if you boot to text mode, for KDE all you have to do is log in and at the prompt type 'kde' and that should load it.
There should be a dir in /etc/X11 called 'kdm', IIRC, check in there for config files that may be the culprit. There are usually options in there to tell the Login Manager what WM's to list. Vague, I know, but I haven't used KDE or Gnome or booted into X in quite some time :-\
I had the same problem - changing to mdkkdm fixed it.
Sir Robin
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Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey
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