THANKS, both Tom and Ben hit the nail on the head, althought i had downloaded KDE w/apt, for some reason it had not installed-grrr (well, it was a download w/100 MBs of other updates/upgrades, so i guess something caused it not to configure--probably got bored after the 6 hours it took to download..LOL..boy i miss my DSL). As a test, i had installed KDM, then replaced it back w/GDM and BOTH my custom session script and the new script kdebase had installed worked to envoke KDE (there is alot of extra scripting w/the one kdebase added, i'm not good with reading/mucking with linux scripts-i wonder if i need all that extra garbage when just exec startkde works!!!????) ----- Original Message ----- > Ben Ford writes: > > OK. What that means is the script is executing, but it doesn't have any > > effect. Your KDE install may be crashing (try running from an xterm to > > verify) or more likely, startkde isn't in your path. Try adding the > > full path to the command, ie: "exec /usr/bin/startkde" (you might have > > to adjust the path, I don't know if that is right). > > David Brown wrote: > > >Hey its almost there, the script added what i called it (kde) to the > > >drop-down menu, and i'm pretty sure 'exec startkde' starts kde, however this > > >just loops me back ot the login screen... > > >I believe that more is needed to the script to make it work......i'm lost as > > >to how/what is needed with linux scripts. > > >Can someone point me in the right direction here on what to add? >>Tom Huckstep wrote: > I'm coming in on the end of this, so I don't know if what I'm saying > has already been tried, but have you actually *installed* the kdebase > package? You can't run KDE without it (although you can run KDE based > apps, they only require the qt libs).> > kdebase provides /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE, and you really shouldn't need > to write it yourself. > apt-get kdebase > > (as root) > > Tom > >
