Ahh, I think I am beginning to understand... So what has happened to kdm. When my computer boots up it is supposed to go to a graphical login screen. It use to do that, however now it just comes to a grey screen. Is their a paticular script I should be looking at? Thanks Kevin Naka Gadjov wrote: > >Kevin Fonner wrote: > >>OK, Ive got a new interesting problem... If I type startx from a >>command prompt then X starts up fine... Hoever if I type X then it >>starts up with that sort of grey screen with a pointer on it but never >>gets any graphics. I know kdm tries to start x with an X command so why >>is this behaving this way? >> >>Oh and by the way I remember their was a key sequence to force X to >>shutdown.... What was that? >> > >X is only X server. This is only gray screen. But the KDE is program that runs >under X. >There are different program for starting - startx, xinit and X. >startx is a script that start many others things after starting X. >You can use xinit for example for starting X and the 1 program under it. You >can try by example >"xinit /usr/bin/xclock" (if i could remember "/usr/bin/xclock" is a proper >PATH). > >If you try "xinit" along - this start X and the terminal. Now type "startkde" >in tne terminal or xclock or some X program. > >Naka. > > > > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com > > message.footer > > Content-Type: > > text/plain > Content-Encoding: > > 8bit > >
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