Hey! Problem solved.... here's what was going on...
X was starting fine... All I needed to do was type, "startkde"... (with the .xinitrc file though, I don't have to do that anymore). Thanks! -- nathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbies] Problems with X server > Here's an example ~/.xinitrc file: > > #!/bin/sh > exec startkde > > Hope this helps. > > --Dave > > Phillip Hellewell wrote: > > >Nathan, > > You might want to take a look at ~/.Xsession and/or ~/.xinitrc. If > >either of these files are non-empty, then they can be used to specify > >your desired window manager and (in the case of .xinitrc) any extra > >programs to launch automatically. Possibly removing these files is what > >you need to do. > > > >Phillip Hellewell > > > >On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:25:05PM -0700, Nathan Given wrote: > > > > > >>I have a server, so I don't really want to run X ... but every once and a > >>while I want to get into X and do some things... > >> > >>I was starting up on runlevel 5 and everything was fine and dandy... now I'm > >>booting up on runlevel 3 and I log in just fine, but everytime it type > >>'startx' KDE 3.0 kind of starts.... it ends up giving me a graphical looking > >>shell window... but KDE never really starts... > >> > >>if I log in as root, I can type 'startx' and everything works fine... > >> > >>how do I fix this? > >> > >>thanks > >>-- > >>Nathan > >> > >>Sys Info... > >> > >>Mandrake 9.0 > >>KDE 3.0 > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>newbies mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >newbies mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
